William Butler Yeats Quotes

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

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I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.

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A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

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Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk

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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.

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Everything in nature is resurrection.

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

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But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

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