William Butler Yeats frasi celebri
But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Origine: Da He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; citato in Equilibrium.
libro Fiabe Irlandesi
“Correggendo le mie opere, correggo me stesso.”
Origine: Citato in Marguerite Yourcenar, Taccuini di appunti, in Memorie di Adriano, traduzione di Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino, 1988, p. 299. ISBN 88-06-60011-7
William Butler Yeats Frasi e Citazioni
Incipit di alcune opere, Fiabe irlandesi, The Fairies (I folletti)
“Se guardi nel buio a lungo, c'è sempre qualcosa.”
Origine: Citato in Luca Goldoni, Vita da bestie, ed. BUR, 2001.
Origine: Da Autobiografia; citato in Thomas R. Nevin, Simone Weil: Ritratto di un'ebrea che si volle esiliare, traduzione di Giulia Boringhieri, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1997, p. 420. ISBN 88-339-1056-3
vv. 27 – 33
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
“Molte volte l'uomo vive e muore fra le sue due eternità.”
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
William Butler Yeats: Frasi in inglese
“If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?”
The Lady's Second Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1639/, st. 3
Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Scholars http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1682/, st. 2
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Letter to George William Russell (1 July 1921)
The Great Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1626/
Last Poems (1936-1939)
St. 7
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
St. 1
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
An Acre of Grass http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1438/, st. 2
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
Lapis Lazuli, st. 5
Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)
To A Young Beauty http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1728/, st. 3
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”
II, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1520/', st. 1
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?”
The Tower, II, st. 13
The Tower (1928)
Letter to Olivia Shakespear (24 March 1927)
“O what fine thought we had because we thought
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”
I, st. 2
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory, st. 12
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.”
The Circus Animals' Desertion http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1603/, II, st. 3.
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”
Towards Break of Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1740/, st. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
“Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.”
St. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”
Origine: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, VII
Into The Twilight http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1519/, st. 4
The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7