William Butler Yeats Quotes

All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

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A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

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And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.

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

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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

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

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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

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

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Time can but make her beauty over again.

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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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