William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.

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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

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

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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

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I knew that I had seen, had seen at last That girl my unremembering nights hold fast Or else my dreams that fly If I should rub an eye, And yet in flying fling into my meat A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.

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I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.

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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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