William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

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

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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

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... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

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What can I but enumerate old themes?

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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

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On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw, A Buddha, hand at rest, Hand lifted up that blest; And right between these two a girl at play That, it may be, had danced her life away.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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