William Butler Yeats Quotes

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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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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While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity.

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But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

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

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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

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

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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

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The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. "Hound voices" were they all.

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

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For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

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