William Butler Yeats Quotes

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

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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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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

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

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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

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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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