My curse on plays that have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day’s war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.
William Butler Yeats
Playwriting, Stage Management, Drama, Entertainment, Arts, Theater
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“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...” William Butler Yeats
Bride-Bed Despair, Imagined Image, Real Image, Disillusionment, Marriage, Expectations
William Butler Yeats Bride-Bed Despair, Imagined Image, Real Image, Disillusionment, Marriage, Expectations“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman’s face, or worse – The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.” William Butler Yeats
Temptation From Verse, Fool-Driven Land, Accustomed Toil, Art, Dedication, Distraction
William Butler Yeats Temptation From Verse, Fool-Driven Land, Accustomed Toil, Art, Dedication, Distraction“All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.” William Butler Yeats
Rooted Existence, Earthly Ties, Life’s Origins, Soil, Earth, Life
William Butler Yeats Rooted Existence, Earthly Ties, Life’s Origins, Soil, Earth, Life“On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest, Hand lifted up that blest; And right between these two a girl at play That, it may be, had danced her life away...” William Butler Yeats
Cashel Vision, Sphinx And Buddha, Girl At Play, Symbolism, Dance, Transience
William Butler Yeats Cashel Vision, Sphinx And Buddha, Girl At Play, Symbolism, Dance, Transience“The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind’s eye than any face But that of Christ.” William Butler Yeats
Dante Alighieri, Christendom’s Chief, Hollow Face, Imagination, Legacy, Spirituality
William Butler Yeats Dante Alighieri, Christendom’s Chief, Hollow Face, Imagination, Legacy, Spirituality“Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.” William Butler Yeats
Priestly Authority, Worldly Illusions, Passing Time, Priest, Dog, Illusions
William Butler Yeats Priestly Authority, Worldly Illusions, Passing Time, Priest, Dog, Illusions“I don’t think the moral is good; and if any of you thuckeens go about imitating Anty in her laziness, you’ll find it won’t thrive with you as it did with her. She was beautiful beyond compare, which none of you are, and she had three powerful fairies to help her besides.” William Butler Yeats
Anty’s Laziness, Moral Reflection, Powerful Fairies, Beauty, Critique, Supernatural
William Butler Yeats Anty’s Laziness, Moral Reflection, Powerful Fairies, Beauty, Critique, Supernatural“The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven’t the time to cook it.” William Butler Yeats
Raw Pleasure, Time Scarcity, Poor’s Struggle, Poverty, Time, Struggle
William Butler Yeats Raw Pleasure, Time Scarcity, Poor’s Struggle, Poverty, Time, Struggle“Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.” William Butler Yeats
Critical Evaluation, Life’s Accomplishments, Legacy Building, Intellect, Faith, Legacy
William Butler Yeats Critical Evaluation, Life’s Accomplishments, Legacy Building, Intellect, Faith, Legacy“The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.” William Butler Yeats
Weary Priest, Half Flock, Resting Souls, Priest, Flock, Souls
William Butler Yeats Weary Priest, Half Flock, Resting Souls, Priest, Flock, Souls“And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.” William Butler Yeats
Elegance In Art, Beauty’s Illusion, Mythical Phoenix, Legacy, Nostalgia, Elegance
William Butler Yeats Elegance In Art, Beauty’s Illusion, Mythical Phoenix, Legacy, Nostalgia, Elegance“I – love’s skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb – Shall leap into the light lost In my mother’s womb.” William Butler Yeats
Love’s Skein, Tomb Leap, Mother’s Womb, Love, Tomb, Light
William Butler Yeats Love’s Skein, Tomb Leap, Mother’s Womb, Love, Tomb, Light“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.” William Butler Yeats
Artist’s Vision, Ireland’s Face, Significant Beauty, Artist, Ireland, Vision
William Butler Yeats Artist’s Vision, Ireland’s Face, Significant Beauty, Artist, Ireland, Vision“Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?” William Butler Yeats
Impermanence, Love, Emotions, Reflection, Transience, Passion
William Butler Yeats Impermanence, Love, Emotions, Reflection, Transience, Passion“My curse on plays that have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day’s war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.” William Butler Yeats
Playwriting, Stage Management, Drama, Entertainment, Arts, Theater
William Butler Yeats Playwriting, Stage Management, Drama, Entertainment, Arts, Theater“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
Blazing Heaven, Tragedy Uttermost, Hamlet Rambles, Drama, Stages, Intensity
William Butler Yeats Blazing Heaven, Tragedy Uttermost, Hamlet Rambles, Drama, Stages, Intensity“Yet the wise are of opinion that wherever man is, the dark powers who would feed his rapacities are there too, no less than the bright beings who store their honey in the cells of his heart, and the twilight beings who flit hither and thither, and that they encompass him with a passionate and melancholy multitude.” William Butler Yeats
Dark Powers, Bright Beings, Passionate Multitude, Wisdom, Duality, Reflection
William Butler Yeats Dark Powers, Bright Beings, Passionate Multitude, Wisdom, Duality, Reflection“I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?” William Butler Yeats
Aging Heart, Youthful Illusion, Time’s Toll, Aging, Heart, Youth
William Butler Yeats Aging Heart, Youthful Illusion, Time’s Toll, Aging, Heart, Youth