William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

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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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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

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

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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

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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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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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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Where there is nothing, there is God.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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