William Butler Yeats Quotes

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

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Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.

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The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

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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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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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I sat on cushioned otter-skin: My word was law from Ith to Emain, And shook at Invar Amargin The hearts of the world-troubling seamen, And drove tumult and war away.

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But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

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Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

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