William Butler Yeats Quotes

Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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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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I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

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From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.

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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

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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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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

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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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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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

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