William Butler Yeats Quotes

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

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I had this thought a while ago, "My darling cannot understand What I have done, or what would do In this blind bitter land." And I grew weary of the sun

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

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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 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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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

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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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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

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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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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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