William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

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

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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

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Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

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The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

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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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Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

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