William Butler Yeats Quotes

Man has created death.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

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A lonely impulse of delight

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on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

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For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

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Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

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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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Time can but make her beauty over again.

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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

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An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.

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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

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Words alone are certain good.

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