William Butler Yeats Quotes

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

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And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

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We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

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On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest, Hand lifted up that blest; And right between these two a girl at play That, it may be, had danced her life away.

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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

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I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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

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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

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BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there.

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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

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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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