5 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Passion

William Butler Yeats quotes on passion

32. Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age bring the red flare again.

42. One that is ever kind said yesterday: 'Your well-beloved's hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time can but make it easier to be wise Though now it seems impossible, and so All that you need is patience.' Heart cries, 'No, I have not a crumb of comfort, not a grain. Time can but make her beauty over again: Because of that great nobleness of hers The fire that stirs about her, when she stirs, Burns but more clearly. O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze.' O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head, You'd know the folly of being comforted.

125. Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

149. I pray-for word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

159. You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?