William Butler Yeats Quotes

All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

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Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

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

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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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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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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

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

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

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