William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

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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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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

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Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.

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Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

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I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about The bare chimney is gone black out Because the work had finished in that flare.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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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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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.

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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

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Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.

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