W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats was an influential Irish poet and playwright, renowned for his profound contributions to 20th-century literature. Born in 1865, he was a central figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a co-founder of the Abbey Theatre. Yeats' work often interweaved themes of mysticism, Irish identity, and folklore. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, cementing his legacy as a literary giant.
Book summaries for books written by W.B. Yeats
Quotes
And I will clothe myself in shadows, and be a shadow among shadows.
For I would ride with you upon the wind, and dance upon the mountains like a flame.
In dreams begin responsibility.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.
The world is full of more beauty than our eyes can bear.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
What can be explained is not poetry.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.