William Butler Yeats Quotes

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

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Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.

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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

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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 think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.

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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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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

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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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