William Butler Yeats Quotes


While man can still his body keep
Wine or love drug him to sleep,
Waking he thanks the Lord that he
Has body and its stupidity.


Citations

Yeats, W. B. "The Wild Old Wicked Man." New Poems, Cuala Press, 1938, p. 25.

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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.