William Butler Yeats Quotes

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

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I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

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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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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

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The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

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

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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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That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

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I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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Words alone are certain good.

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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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