William Butler Yeats Quotes, Men Quotes, Poetry Quotes

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

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The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

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Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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The poetry of speech.

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Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

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All art emulates the condition of ritual. That is what it comes from and to that it must always return for nourishment.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

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That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

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Poetry is a mug's game.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

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