William Butler Yeats Quotes

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

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If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

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We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

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I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

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