William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

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All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone.

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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun.

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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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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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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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