7 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Faith

William Butler Yeats quotes on faith

11. I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

54. I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave We'll find so good a thing as that we have lost? The hourly kindness, the day's common speech, The habitual content of each with each When neither soul nor body has been crossed.

92. O when may it suffice? That is heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name.

105. Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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

127. Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

151. Then he struggled with the mind; His proud heart he left behind. Now his wars on God begin; At stroke of midnight God shall win. Supernatural Songs, IX, The Four Ages of Man