William Butler Yeats Quotes

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

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The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

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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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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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Myself I must remake.

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For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

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