William Butler Yeats Quotes

When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

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Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.

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

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

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

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Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

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I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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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 Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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