W. B. Yeats
Irish · 1865–1939
Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet and pillar of literary modernism, whose verse moved from Celtic twilight mysticism to a fierce, symbol-laden reckoning with history and aging.
Wikipedia ↗“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,”
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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book,”
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“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
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“I have believed the best of every man, And find that to believe it is enough To make a bad man show him at his best.”
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“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”
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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;”
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“The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
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“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
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“An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick,”
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“Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by!”
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