Frasi di William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats è stato un poeta, drammaturgo, scrittore e mistico irlandese. Spesso indicato come W. B. Yeats, fu anche senatore dello Stato Libero d'Irlanda negli anni venti.

È nato a Dublino nel 1865, primo figlio del pittore John Butler Yeats e di Susan Pollexfen. Quando William ha due anni, per permettere al padre John di proseguire la sua carriera di artista, la famiglia si sposta da Sandymount, nella contea di Dublino, alla contea di Sligo e poi a Londra. I figli di Yeats vengono educati in casa e la madre, nostalgica di Sligo, gli racconta le storie e le fiabe della loro contea di origine.

Nel 1877, a Londra, William entra nella Scuola Godolphin che frequenta per quattro anni. È qui che nasce il suo nazionalismo. Continua la sua educazione alla Erasmus Smith High School a Dublino. L'atelier di suo padre non è tanto distante e William vi passa molto tempo frequentando diversi artisti e scrittori della città. Durante questo periodo comincia a scrivere poemi. Nel 1885 le sue prime poesie ed il saggio "Sir Samuel Ferguson" vengono pubblicati sulla rivista Dublin University Review. Dal 1884 al 1886 frequenta la Scuola Metropolitana d'Arte.

In questo periodo la poesia di Yeats è impregnata di miti e folclore irlandese. Percy Bysshe Shelley esercita su di lui una grande influenza e continuerà a farlo per tutta la vita.

✵ 13. Giugno 1865 – 28. Gennaio 1939
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William Butler Yeats frasi celebri

“E invece io essendo povero ho soltanto i miei sogni e i miei sogni ho steso sotto i tuoi piedi. Cammina leggera perché cammini sopra i miei sogni.”

William Butler Yeats

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.

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“Correggendo le mie opere, correggo me stesso.”

William Butler Yeats

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

“Se guardi nel buio a lungo, c'è sempre qualcosa.”

William Butler Yeats

Origine: Citato in Luca Goldoni, Vita da bestie, ed. BUR, 2001.

“Molte volte l'uomo vive e muore fra le sue due eternità.”

William Butler Yeats

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?”

W.B. Yeats

The Lady&#x27;s Second Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1639/, st. 3 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“To be choked with hate
May well be of all evil chances chief.
If there’s no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 7 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

“The true faith discovered was
When painted panel, statuary.
Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
Amended what was told awry
By some peasant gospeller.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

Wisdom http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1759/ <br class="br">The Tower (1928)

“I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 1 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/

“My temptation is quiet.
Here at life’s end
Neither loose imagination,
Nor the mill of the mind
Consuming its rag and bone,
Can make the truth known.”

W.B. Yeats

An Acre of Grass http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1438/, st. 2 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.”

W.B. Yeats

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”

W.B. Yeats

Letter to Lady Elizabeth Pelham (4 January 1939))

“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

II, st. 1 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/

“A bloody and a sudden end,
Gunshot or a noose,
For Death who takes what man would keep,
Leaves what man would lose.”

W.B. Yeats

John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1520/&#x27;, st. 1 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

The Tower, II, st. 13
The Tower (1928)

“O what fine thought we had because we thought
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

I, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

“Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”

W.B. Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire

Origine: The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Lines 373–375

“Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

Youth And Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1762/ <br class="br">The Tower (1928)

“Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.”

W.B. Yeats

The Circus Animals&#x27; Desertion http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1603/, II, st. 3. <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

Towards Break of Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1740/, st. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

“Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 3 <br class="br">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.”

W.B. Yeats

His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Origine: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, VII

“And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight;
And love is less kind than the grey twilight,
And hope is less dear than the dew of the morn.”

W.B. Yeats

Into The Twilight http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1519/, st. 4 <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

“You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?”

W.B. Yeats

To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

“Whence had they come,
The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome?
What sacred drama through her body heaved
When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?”

W.B. Yeats

Parnell&#x27;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

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