William Butler Yeats Quotes

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

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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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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

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In dreams begins responsibility.

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Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

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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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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

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The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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

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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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Education is not filling

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