William Butler Yeats Quotes

Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

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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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An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

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I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

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What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

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rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

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Education is not filling

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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

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