William Butler Yeats Quotes

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns, Amid the rustle of his planted hills, Life overflows without ambitious pains; And rains down life until the basin spills, And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains As though to choose whatever shape it wills.

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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

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Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

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Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.

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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

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I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

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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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The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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