William Butler Yeats Quotes

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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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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The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

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People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

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What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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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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The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

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

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Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood Of sun and moon and hollow and wood And river and stream work out their will.

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