William Butler Yeats Quotes

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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What can be explained is not poetry.

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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

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

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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

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Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

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

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

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

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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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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

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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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