William Butler Yeats Quotes

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

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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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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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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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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 spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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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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When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

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