William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 14

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• I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Drunk, Ale

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
  Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Karma, Men, Race

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

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  Believe, Ideas, Doe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.443

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• Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Light, Cast Away

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.558, Simon and Schuster

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• It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Book, Class

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill, March 28, 1923.

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Hatred

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"

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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Guests, Tongue

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

  William Butler Yeats

  Secret, Difficult, Known

  "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing" l. 14 (1914)

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• The friends that have it I do wrong
  Whenever I remake a song,
  Should know what issue is at stake:
  It is myself that I remake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Song, Issues

  "The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats". Book by W. B. Yeats, 1908.

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• Being young you have not known
  The fool's triumph, nor yet
  Love lost as soon as won,
  Nor the best labourer dead
  And all the sheaves to bind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lost Love, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Lines, Pavement

  In the Seven Woods (1903) "Adam's Curse"

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• O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
  Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
  And bid them wander obeying your will,
  Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flames, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Tree, Dew

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Faces

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Heart, Giving

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• If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

  William Butler Yeats

  Soul, Looks, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.155

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Knowledge, Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• I long for truth, and yet
  I cannot stay from that
  My better self disowns,
  For a man's attention
  Brings such satisfaction
  To the craving in my bones.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Men, Self

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.523, Hayes Barton Press

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• Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
  With your harmonious choir
  Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
  That my old care may cease.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Compassion, Fire

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.34

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Self, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Oxford, Doe

  William Butler Yeats, Katharine Tynan (1953). “Letters to Katharine Tynan”

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• All think what other people think;
  All know the man their neighbor knows.
  Lord, what would they say
  Did their Catullus walk that way?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Thinking, Gossip

  "The Scholars" l. 9 (1919)

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