William Butler Yeats: Index of Quotations
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On planning an Irish fiction anthology (Letter to Fr. Matthew Russell in 1889) - infra. |
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| Artist as Priest Mysticism & Magic Symbolism |
Supernaturalism Unity of Being Moods & Emotions |
Masks & Identity Irish Criticism Oedipus at the Abbey |
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| Dramatic Art Tragic or Creative Joy |
Literature & Sexuality Women & Dolls |
Idealism v. Realism Yeats’s Creed |
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| Wm. Shakespeare |
Jonathan Swift |
William Blake |
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| John Sherman (1891) |
The Countess Cathleen |
Land of Heart’s Desire |
| Kathleen Ni Houlihan | The King’s Threshold | Resurrection (1934) |
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‘[I am] A man of my time, through my poetical faculty living its history’ (Later Essays, ed. William O’Donnell, p.198; quoted in Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, ‘Yeats and Gender’, in The Oxford Companion to W. B. Yeats, ed. Marjorie Howes & John Kelly, OUP 2006, p.169. |
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‘My first principle in my work is that poetry must make the land in which we live a holy land as Homer made Greece.’ (1897; quoted in Edna Longley, ‘Letter from Belfast’, Times Literary Supplement, 12 Dec. 2002, p.15.) |
‘I feel more and more that we shall have a school of Irish poetry – founded on Irish myth and history – a neo-romantic movement.’ - ‘Any breath from Ireland blows pleasurably in this hateful London where you cannot go five paces without seeing some wretched object broken either by wealth or poverty.’ Letters to Katherine Tynan, 1887, in Allan Wade, ed., Letters, 1954, pp. 33 & 35.) |
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‘I must leave my sights and images to explain themselves as the years go by, and one poem lights up another.’ (Preface to Poems, 1899; quoted in T. R. Henn, The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats, London: Methuen 1965 [rev. edn.], p.126.) |
‘Politics growing heroic [...] A Fascist opposition is forming behind the scenes to be ready should some tragic situation develop. I find myself constantly urging the despotic rule of the educated classes as the only end to our troubles. (Let this sleep in your ear.)’ (WBY to Olivia Shakespeare, 13 July 1933; Wade, pp.811-12; quoted in Brenda Maddox, Yeats’s Ghosts [..&c], NY: HarperCollins 1999, p.271.) |
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‘It seems to me that I have found what I wanted. When I try to put all into a phrase I say, “Man can embody truth but he cannot know it”. (Letters, ed. Allan Wade, London Rupert-Hart Davis 1954, p.922.) |
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For Yeats, the playwrights of Catholic Ireland were ‘dominated by their subject’ while those of Anglo-Irish background ‘stand above their subject and play with it.’ (The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Wade, London: Hart-Davis 1954, p.464; cited in Thomas Kilroy, ‘A Generation of Playwrights’, in Irish University Review, Spring 1992, p.135.) |
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Introductory poems [‘Time drops in decay ...” [vi]; ‘The host is riding from Knocknarea ...’ (“The Hosting of the Sidhe”) [vii]; This Book [1]; A Teller of Tales [4]; Belief and Unbelief [8]; Mortal Help [12]; A Visionary [15]; Village Ghosts [23]; “Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye” [35]; A Knight of the Sheep [50]; An Enduring Heart [56]; The Sorcerers [61]; The Devil [69]; Happy and Unhappy Theologians [71]; The Last Gleeman [79]; Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [79]; “And Fair, Fierce Women” [97]; Enchanted Woods [101]; Miraculous Creatures [109]; Aristotle of the Books [112]; The Swine of the Gods [113]; A Voice [115]; Kidnappers [117]; The Untiring Ones [130]; Earth, Fire and Water [135]; The Old Town [137]; The Man and His Boots [141]; A Coward [143]; The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries [145]; Drumcliff and Rosses [148]; The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [160]; The Religion of the Sailor [163]; Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory [165]; The Eaters of Precious Stones [167]; Our Lady of the Hills [169]; The Golden Age [173]; A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries [176]; War [183]; The Queen and The Fool [186]; The Friends of the People of Faery [195]; Dreams That Have No Moral [208]; By The Roadside [231]; “Into the Twilight” [poem, 235]. |
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