William Butler Yeats Quotes

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

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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 light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

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

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Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

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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 thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

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