William Butler Yeats

Quotes

• “Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.”

• “All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born.”

• “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

• “This melancholy London. I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.”

Books by William Butler Yeats in order

Books by William Butler Yeats in the order they were published, from Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888) to The Lake Isle of Innisfree (2017).

1. 1Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish PeasantryFairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry1888
2. 2Irish Fairy and Folk TalesIrish Fairy and Folk Tales1890
3. 3Irish Fairy TalesIrish Fairy Tales1892
4. 4The Celtic TwilightThe Celtic Twilight1893
5. 5The Land of Heart's DesireThe Land of Heart's Desire1894
6. 6Poems: Second SeriesPoems: Second Series1895
7. 7The Secret RoseThe Secret Rose1897
   What's in it (16)

   • The Binding of the Hair
   • The Wisdom of the King
   • Where There Is Nothing, There Is God
   • The Crucifixion of the Outcast
   • Out of the Rose
   • The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows
   • The Heart of the Spring
   • Of Costello, the Proud, of Oona the Daughter of Dermott and of the Bitter Tongue
   • The Book of the Great Dhoul and Hanrahan the Red
   • The Twisting of the Rope and Hanrahan the Red
   • The Curse of Hanrahan the Red
   • The Vision of Hanrahan the Red
   • The Death of Hanrahan the Red
   • The Rose of Shadow
   • The Old Men of the Twilight
   • Rosa Alchemica
8. 8Wind Among the ReedsWind Among the Reeds1899
9. 9The Hour-glassThe Hour-glass1903
10. 10ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities1914
11. 11The Wild Swans at CooleThe Wild Swans at Coole1917
12. 12AutobiographiesAutobiographies1926
    What's in it (6)

    • Reveries Over Childhood and Youth
    • The Trembling of the Veil
    • Dramatis Personae
    • Estrangement
    • The Death of Synge
    • The Bounty of Sweden
13. 13The TowerThe Tower1928
14. 14Leda and the SwanLeda and the Swan1935
15. 15Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and ProseYeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose2000
16. 16The Lake Isle of InnisfreeThe Lake Isle of Innisfree2017
17. 17Fairy Folk Tales of IrelandFairy Folk Tales of Ireland
18. 18Fairy Tales of IrelandFairy Tales of Ireland
19. 19MythologiesMythologies
    What's in it (4)

    • The Celtic Twilight (1893)
    • The Secret Rose (1897)
    • Stories of Red Hanrahan (1897)
    • Per Amica Silentia Lunae
20. 20The Collected Poems of W. B. YeatsThe Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
21. 21The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. YeatsThe Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats
22. 22William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats
    What's in it (26)

    • The Sad Shepherd
    • The Stolen Child
    • The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
    • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
    • To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire
    • The Hosting of the Sidhe
    • The Fish
    • The Song of Wandering Aengus
    • The Valley of the Black Pig
    • He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
    • The Fiddler of Dooney
    • The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
    • At Galway Races
    • Running to Paradise
    • To a Child Dancing in the Wind
    • A Coat
    • The Wild Swans at Coole
    • An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
    • The Balloon of the Mind
    • To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no
    • The Hawk
    • The Cat and the Moon
    • Two Songs of a Fool
    • The Second Coming
    • Sailing to Byzantium
    • The Stare's Nest by My Window
23. 23YeatsYeats