William Butler Yeats Quotes

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

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Hammer your thoughts into unity.

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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

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For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

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Words alone are certain good.

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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Education is not filling

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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.

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