William Butler Yeats Quotes

I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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

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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

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And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.

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An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.

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Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

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There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

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Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

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There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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

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