William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

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

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but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

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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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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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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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In dreams begins responsibility.

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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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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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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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The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

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Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

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Though I have many words, What woman's satisfied, I am no longer faint Because at her side? O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

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Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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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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Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

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. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

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