William Butler Yeats Quotes

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

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A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out. It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

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What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

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When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

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Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

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

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