William Butler Yeats Quotes

Love comes in at the eye.

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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

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What can be explained is not poetry.

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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

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I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer

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