William Butler Yeats Quotes

And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven with Hell.

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

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And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

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There is another world, but it is in this one.

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

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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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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

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Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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