William Butler Yeats Quotes About Rage

Quotes about: Rage

• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Guests, Tongue

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

• Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heaven, Tragedy, Scene

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Dark, Men

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932"

• Man's life is thought,
  And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
  Ravening through century after century,
  Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
  Into the desolation of reality.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.151

• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
  "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
  "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Father, Land

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

• 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?

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Thinking, Lust

  'The Spur'

• But bear in mind your lover's wage
  Is what your looking-glass can show,
  And that he will turn green with rage
  At all that is not pictured there.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Jealousy, Glasses

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.82

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