„Přemýšlej jako moudrý člověk, ale mluv jazykem lidí.“
Varianta: Přemýšlej jako mudrc, ale hovoř jazykem lidí.
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William Butler Yeats nejznámější citáty
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
William Butler Yeats citáty a výroky
„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]
William Butler Yeats: Citáty anglicky
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
III, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”
Zdroj: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 57.
Brown Penny http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1454/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1516/, st. 11 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
V, st. 1 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Quarrel In Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1567/, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
Two Songs from a Play, as quoted from The Cycles of History http://www.yeatsvision.com/history.html
“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
II, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
“It’s certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat
Whereby the Horn of plenty is undone.”
W.B. Yeats kniha Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
W.B. Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
Under Ben Bulben http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1745/, V <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Balloon Of The Mind http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1595/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Byzantium, st. 4
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
News for the Delphic Oracle http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1546/, st. 3 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Spur http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1693/ <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
The Tower http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1700/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
Speech, (28 March 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192303280011.html
The Apparitions http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1589/, st. 1 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.”
Long-Legged Fly http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1525/, refrain <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Cat And The Moon http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1599/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
V, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
Speech (7 June 1923), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Censorship of Films Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0001/S.0001.192306070006.html
W.B. Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
The Song Of Wandering Aengus http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1690/ <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
An Acre of Grass, st. 3
Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1471/, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
“Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.”
W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower
Fragments http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1484/, I <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
Zdroj: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 1–5.
