William Butler Yeats Quotes

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

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Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

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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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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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