William Butler Yeats Quotes

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

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I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

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It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

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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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Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.

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

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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

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