William Butler Yeats Quotes

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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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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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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Who mocks at music mocks at love.

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It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

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