William Butler Yeats Quotes


The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.


Citations

Yeats, W. B. "Village Ghosts." The Celtic Twilight, Lawrence and Bullen, 1893, p. 23.

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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
  • Born: June 13, 1865
  • Died: January 28, 1939
  • Nationality: Irish
  • Profession: Poet

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.