Уильям Батлер Йейтс цитаты
Уильям Батлер Йейтс
Дата рождения: 13. Июнь 1865
Дата смерти: 28. Январь 1939
Уильям Батлер Йейтс — ирландский англоязычный поэт, драматург. Лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1923 года.
Цитаты Уильям Батлер Йейтс
„Образование не заполнение ведра водой, а зажжение огня.“
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
„Не жди, пока железо станет горячим для ковки — но куй, и оно станет горячим.“
Do not wait to strike ’til the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
„Ответственность начинается во сне (мечтах).“
Вариант: Ответственность начинается в мечтах.
„One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.“
— W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Источник: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
„Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.“
— W.B. Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
Источник: The Land of Heart's Desire
„The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.“
In The Seven Woods http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1518/
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Контексте: I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods
Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees
Hum in the lime-tree flowers; and put away
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile
Tara uprooted, and new commonness
Upon the throne and crying about the streets
And hanging its paper flowers from post to post,
Because it is alone of all things happy.
I am contented, for I know that Quiet
Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
Among pigeons and bees, while that Great Archer,
Who but awaits His house to shoot, still hands
A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
„For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.“
— W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays
Источник: Selected Poems and Four Plays
„But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.“
— W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1499/
Вариант: I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Источник: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Контексте: Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
„Hammer your thoughts into unity.“
"If I Were Four-and-Twenty," printed in Irish Statesman (23 August 1919)
Контексте: One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: "Hammer your thoughts into unity." For days I could think of nothing else, and for years I tested all I did by that sentence.
