William Butler Yeats Quotes

Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

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Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

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Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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Love comes in at the eye.

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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

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I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

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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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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

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And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

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In dreams begins responsibility.

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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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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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