William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

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Love comes in at the eye.

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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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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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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

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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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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

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

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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.

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But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

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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 statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

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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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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

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