William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 24

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• Time can but make her beauty over again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Appreciation, Her Beauty

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Animal, Men

  The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

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

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  Teacher, Father, Book

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• The common breeds the common,
  A lout begets a lout,
  So when I take on half a score
  I knock their heads about.

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  Half, Violence, Common

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.827, Simon and Schuster

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• Man has created death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Biodiversity

  'Death'

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• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

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  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

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• We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

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  Dream, Mirrors, Hands

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• God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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  Wings, Giving, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

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  Brother, Children, Husband

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• I have heard that hysterical women say
  They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
  Of poets that are always gay

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  Gay, Sick, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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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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  Alive, Lovers

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Ephemeral, Tablets

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

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  Running, Stars, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

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  Love, Kindness, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• Though I have many words,
  What woman's satisfied,
  I am no longer faint
  Because at her side?
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Heart, Sides

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.27, Hayes Barton Press

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• Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Fate, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.115, Penguin

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