William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.

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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

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Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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

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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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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride's ambition satisfied.

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Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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