„Přemýšlej jako moudrý člověk, ale mluv jazykem lidí.“
Varianta: Přemýšlej jako mudrc, ale hovoř jazykem lidí.
William Butler Yeats byl anglicky píšící irský básník, dramatik a esejista, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1923. Wikipedia

„Přemýšlej jako moudrý člověk, ale mluv jazykem lidí.“
Varianta: Přemýšlej jako mudrc, ale hovoř jazykem lidí.
překlad "But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams" - z filmu Equilibrium
„Romantické Irsko už je mrtvé. Spí tam, kde má John O'Leary hrob.“
Originál: (en) Romantic Ireland's dead and gone; it's with O'Leary in the grave. <br class="br">Zdroj: R.S. Thomas na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texty/rozhovory/r-s-thomas-v-rozhovoru-s-michaelem-marchem_2018.html
„Člověk může ztělesňovat pravdu, ale nemůže pravdu znát.“
Originál: (en) Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Zdroj: [Škvorecký, Josef, 2007, Scherzo capriccioso, Levne knihy, 1, 7, 80-7309-207-7]
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Choice http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1602/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1641/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Kontext: I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,<br>And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:<br>Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,<br>And live alone in the bee-loud glade.<br>And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow<br>Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
I, st. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
St. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/
Speech (3 March 1926), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Coinage Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0006/S.0006.192603030003.html
“O when may it suffice?
That is heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name.”
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
V, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
St. 1 <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/
“Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.”
Responsibilities - Introduction http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1572/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
V, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
The Wild Swans At Coole http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1712/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Seven Sages http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1685/ <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia.”
Lapis Lazuli http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1522/, st. 2 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Lullaby http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1527/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The Countess Cathleen http://www.letras.ufrj.br/veralima/6_referencias/63_e_texts_2005/yeats/countess_cathleen/yeats_countess_cathleen_2005.htm, last lines (1892)
“Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
For Anne Gregory http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1483/, st. 3 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 2 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
No Second Troy http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1548/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
V, st. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4. <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/ <br class="br">Kontext: I write it out in a verse—<br>MacDonagh and MacBride<br>And Connolly and Pearse<br>Now and in time to be,<br>Wherever green is worn,<br>Are changed, changed utterly:<br>A terrible beauty is born.
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.”
Under Ben Bulben, VI
Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
Leda and the Swan http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1523/, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
“They say such different things at school.”
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
Letter to Frederick J. Gregg (undated, Sligo, late summer, 1886)
The Magi http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1652/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)