William Butler Yeats Quotes

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

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Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.

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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

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Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

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