William Butler Yeats Quotes

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

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Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

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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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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

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Words alone are certain good.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

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The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

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

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Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

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