William Butler Yeats Quotes

Hammer your thoughts into unity.

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Who mocks at music mocks at love.

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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.

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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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I thought it out this very day, Noon upon the clock, A man may put pretence away Who leans upon a stick, May sing, and sing until he drop, Whether to maid or hag.

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Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

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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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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

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Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

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All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.

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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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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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

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