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Responsibilities and other poems QUOTES

Responsibilities and other poems QUOTES

1 " To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water’s roar?
And tumble out your hair
That the salt drops have wet;
Being young you have not known
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won,
Nor the best labourer dead
And all the sheaves to bind.
What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?

Has no one said those daring
Kind eyes should be more learn’d?
Or warned you how despairing
The moths are when they are burned,
I could have warned you, but you are young,
So we speak a different tongue.

O you will take whatever’s offered
And dream that all the world’s a friend,
Suffer as your mother suffered,
Be as broken in the end.
But I am old and you are young,
And I speak a barbarous tongue. "

― W.B. Yeats , Responsibilities and other poems

2 " The Realists

HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons? "

― W.B. Yeats , Responsibilities and other poems

3 " Why should the faithfullest heart most love The bitter sweetness of false faces? "

― W.B. Yeats , Responsibilities and other poems

4 " THE REALISTS Hope that you may understand! What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly waggons Do, but awake a hope to live That had gone With the dragons? "

― W.B. Yeats , Responsibilities and other poems

5 " Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death, "

― W.B. Yeats , Responsibilities and other poems