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W. B. Yeats

11/4/2017

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" I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them.  I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.  I have, however, been at no pains to separate my own beliefs from those of the peasantry, but have rather let my men and women, dhouls and faeries, go their way unoffended or defended by any argument of mine.  The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best.  I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me."

The Celtic Twilight
Faerie and Folklore
~W.B. Yeats

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  • paintings
  • paintings, cont'd.
    • William Butler Yeats
  • former works
    • NFS greeting cards
  • Langston Hughes
  • Finnegans Wake
  • misc. notes
    • publications
  • James Joyce
    • not-a-blog
  • James Joyce
  • Fiber Arts
  • exhibits and presentationsNew Page
  • exhibits and presentationsNew Page
  • Fiber Arts