William Butler Yeats Quotes

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

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Man has created death.

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THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

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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. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods lay.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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Who mocks at music mocks at love.

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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

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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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My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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