William Butler Yeats Berühmte Zitate
„Keiner, der mit äußerster Geschwindigkeit läuft, hat Kopf oder Herz.“
Entfremdung
"Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a heart." - Journal 1909, in: Estrangement (1926) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nQ6A_QpI4YwC&pg=PA365
„Hinter der Maske ist immer ein lebendiges Gesicht.“
Synges Tod
"There is always a living face behind the mask." - The death of Synge. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nQ6A_QpI4YwC&pg=PA373
„Denke wie ein Weiser aber sprich die Sprache Deiner Mitmenschen!“
Leider steht das Zitat mit einem tragischen RS-fehler in der Sammung.. statt "weiser Mensch" ist dort von einem "Weißen" die Rede... leider hab ich die Kommentarfunktion nicht gefunden.. vielen Dank für die Korrektur, mit freundlichen Grüßen von CK
„Der Akt der Würdigung von etwas, das Größe hat, ist ein Akt der Selbstüberwindung.“
Synges Tod
"The act of appreciation of any great thing is an act of self-conquest." - The death of Synge. books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nQ6A_QpI4YwC&pg=PA381
William Butler Yeats Zitate und Sprüche
„Ein Dichter schöpft die Tragik aus seiner eigenen Seele, der Seele, die allen Menschen gleicht.“
Entfremdung
"A poet creates tragedy from his own soul, that soul which is alike in all men." - Journal 1909, in: Estrangement (1926) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nQ6A_QpI4YwC&pg=PA348
Entfremdung
"All civilisation is held together by the suggestions of an invisible hypnotist — by artificially created illusions." - Journal 1909, in: Estrangement (1926) books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=nQ6A_QpI4YwC&pg=PA356
Heinrich Böll: Irisches Tagebuch. Werke Bd. 10, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2005, S. 269 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=eckbAQAAMAAJ&q=reiter
"Cast a cold eye | On life, on death. | Horseman, pass by!" - Under Ben Bulben [1938], bei en.wikisource
William Butler Yeats: Zitate auf Englisch
“If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?”
The Lady's Second Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1639/, st. 3
Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Scholars http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1682/, st. 2
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Letter to George William Russell (1 July 1921)
The Great Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1626/
Last Poems (1936-1939)
St. 7
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
St. 1
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
An Acre of Grass http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1438/, st. 2
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
Lapis Lazuli, st. 5
Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)
To A Young Beauty http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1728/, st. 3
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”
II, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1520/', st. 1
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?”
The Tower, II, st. 13
The Tower (1928)
Letter to Olivia Shakespear (24 March 1927)
“O what fine thought we had because we thought
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”
I, st. 2
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory, st. 12
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.”
The Circus Animals' Desertion http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1603/, II, st. 3.
Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”
Towards Break of Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1740/, st. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
“Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.”
St. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”
Quelle: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, VII
Into The Twilight http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1519/, st. 4
The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7
