William Butler Yeats Quotes

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

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I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.

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I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

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Everything we look upon is blest.

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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

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O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

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But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

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While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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