Poetry Quote by W.B. Yeats — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“How far away the stars seem, and how far”

“And after all, can we come to so great evil if we keep a little fire on our hearths and in our souls, and welcome with open hand whatever of excellent come to warm itself, whether it be man or phantom, and do not say too fiercely, even to the dhouls themselves, ‘Be ye gone’? When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? For it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!”

“Because to him, who ponders well,”

“I sat, a solitary man,”

“The Coming of Wisdom with Time”

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

“Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind”

“They say”

“How young I seem; I”

“If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.”

“Language has not the power to speak what love indites”

“I yearn to make these scars disappear”