Key Quotes From Yeats

Front 1

The Stolen Child (1886)

Back 1

'Reddest Stolen Cherries'

'Un-quiet Dreams'

For the worlds more full of weeping that you/he can understand'

'Slumbering' 'Softy' 'Star'

'Frothy bubbles/ while the world is full of troubles'

Front 2

September 1913 (1913)

Back 2

'Fumble in a greasy till'

'halfpence to a pence'

'Gone about the world like wind'

'Wild geese'

'But let them be, they're dead and gone/They're with O'leary in the grave'

'Gray'

Front 3

The Cold Heaven

Back 3

'Ah!'

'Trembled and rocked to and fro'

'hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago'

'ice burned'

'And I took all the blame out of all sense and reason'

Front 4

The Wild Swans at Coole

Back 4

'brilliant creatures'

'passion or conquest wonder where they will'

'Their hearts have no grown old'

Front 5

An Irish Airman Forsees his Death

Back 5

'Balance with this life, this death'

'I balanced all'

'The years to come seemed waste of breath, waste of breath the years behind'

Front 6

The Cat and The Moon

Back 6

'From round to crescent , from present to round'

'His changing eyes'

'Maybe the moon way learn'

'Courtly fashion/A new dance to learn'

Front 7

The Fisherman

Back 7

'Wise and simple man'

'Great art beaten down'

'A man who does not exist; a man who is but a dream'

'Grey'

'The living men that I hate/ The dead man that I loved'

'Drunken cheer'

Front 8

Broken Dreams

Back 8

'grey in your hair'

'burdensome beauty'

'But in the grave all, all, shall be renewed'

'You are the most beautiful then any one/And yet your body has flaws'

'Vague memories'

'My youthful eyes'