William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

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Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

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But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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What can I but enumerate old themes?

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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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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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Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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