William Butler Yeats Quotes

What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour.

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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

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

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The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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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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Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.

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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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What can I but enumerate old themes?

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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

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Education is not filling

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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

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Myself I must remake.

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

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