William Butler Yeats Quotes

Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

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How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms!

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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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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

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Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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Man has created death.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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