William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

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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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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

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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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I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

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All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

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