June 13: Notable Births, with Quotes
Explore memorable and revealing quotes from William Butler Yeats, who was born on June 13.
William Butler Yeats, poet (June 13, 1865–January 28, 1939)
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” —William Butler Yeats
Yeats, William Butler. “Among School Children.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43293/among-school-children.
“May God be praised for woman, that gives up all her mind! A man may find in no man a friendship of her kind.” —William Butler Yeats
Yeats, William Butler. “On Woman.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=13323.
“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Better go down upon your marrow-bones and scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather; For to articulate sweet sounds together is to work harder than all these, and yet be thought an idler by the noisy set of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen the martyrs call the world.” —William Butler Yeats
Yeats, William Butler. “Adam’s Curse.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-curse.
“To be born woman is to know—although they do not talk of it at school—that we must labour to be beautiful.” —William Butler Yeats
Yeats, William Butler. “Adam’s Curse.” Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43285/adams-curse.
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