William Butler Yeats Quotes

An intellectual hate is the worst.

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The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

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I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart.

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Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

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For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

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Our words must seem to be inevitable.

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It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.

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What can I but enumerate old themes?

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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

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

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The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens.

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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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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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