William Butler Yeats Quotes

In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

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

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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

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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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Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

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But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

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Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

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