William Butler Yeats Quotes

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

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To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

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I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

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Who mocks at music mocks at love.

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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

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Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

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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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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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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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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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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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