William Butler Yeats Quotes

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

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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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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

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O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

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He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

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