William Butler Yeats Quotes

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

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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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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

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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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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

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Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.

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I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

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All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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