William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

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True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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Words alone are certain good.

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So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

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

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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

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

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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

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Man has created death.

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Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

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