William Butler Yeats Quotes

As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

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

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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

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A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead

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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.

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If Michael, leader of God's host When Heaven and Hell are met, Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post He would his deeds forget.

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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

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Love comes in at the eye.

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Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

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In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time Half dead at the top.

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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