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William Butler Yeats byl anglicky píšící irský básník, dramatik a esejista, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu za rok 1923. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. červen 1865 – 28. leden 1939
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William Butler Yeats nejznámější citáty

„Přemýšlej jako moudrý člověk, ale mluv jazykem lidí.“

Varianta: Přemýšlej jako mudrc, ale hovoř jazykem lidí.

„Ale já, jsa nuzák, mám jen své sny. Rozprostřel jsem své sny pod tvé nohy. Našlapuj měkce, neboť šlapeš po mých snech.“

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.
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

“O but we dreamed to mend
Whatever mischief seemed
To afflict mankind, but now
That winds of winter blow
Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower

III, st. 3
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.

“Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower

V, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

“Somewhere beyond the curtain
Of distorting days
Lives that lonely thing
That shone before these eyes
Targeted, trod like Spring.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Quarrel In Old Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1567/, st. 2
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower

II, st. 2
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
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

“Hands, do what you’re bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.”

The Balloon Of The Mind http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1595/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Tower

The Tower http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1700/, I
The Tower (1928)

“Because there is safety in derision
I talked about an apparition,
I took no trouble to convince,
Or seem plausible to a man of sense.”

The Apparitions http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1589/, st. 1
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
Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.”

The Cat And The Moon http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1599/
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems

V, st. 2
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

“Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied.”

W.B. Yeats kniha The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Crazy Jane Talks With The Bishop http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1471/, st. 2
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
The Tower (1928)

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