William Butler Yeats Tragedy Quotations

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.