The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary. Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeller.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Yeats argues that true religious belief is confirmed when art objects correct the misunderstandings of simple preachers.
- In plain terms
- Faith is proven when art fixes what simple teachers got wrong.
- What can you take from it?
- Art can clarify spiritual truths better than speech.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can art convey truth better than words?
- Is faith found in objects or beliefs?
Another view
It undervalues the role of oral tradition in faith.
More from William Butler Yeats
Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul. Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight o…
Permalink to quote #107 That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees -Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crow…
Permalink to quote #109 Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Permalink to quote #106
Related quotes
Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen …
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale quote #1 There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw quote #8 Art has much in common with religion.
Wassily KandinskyWassily Kandinsky quote #13