William Butler Yeats Quotes


Words alone are certain good.


Citations

Yeats, W. B. "The Song of the Happy Shepherd." The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889, p. 81.

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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.