William Butler Yeats Quotes

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

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The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?

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The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

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My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

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Everything we look upon is blest.

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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

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