William Butler Yeats Quotes

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

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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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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

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The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

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It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

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While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

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