Quotes about life
life happiness wisdom
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due. William Ralph Inge
life flower rose
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. William C. Bryant
life poetry
What can be explained is not poetry. William Butler Yeats
life morning garden
yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.
life disappointment long
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
life tombstone eye
Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
life heart world
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
life world chaos
There is another world, but it is in this one.
life ambition islands
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.
life wisdom moon
For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
life thoughtful reality
man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality....
life men race
Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead
life men long
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place....
life lost-love fool
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.
life pain rain
Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills....
life men giving
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.
life children laughter
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.
life children men
Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then....
life men what-matters
A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?
life stars blood
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
life eye cutting
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
life eye gay
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
life men frogs
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
life believe writing
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
life imagination temptation
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.
life men play
Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
life dark men
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
life fall falling-apart
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...
life change lying
And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly....
life men soul
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul
life hope art
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
life night garden
Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.
life art dirty
There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.