William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 4

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• Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Big Heart, Bigs

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Blessed, Heart, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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  Joy, Overcoming, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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  Love, Love Is, Inequality

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Adversity, Temptation, Soul

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• Everything we look upon is blest.

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  Looks, Look Up

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

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  Dream, Anxiety

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• In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

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  Men, Class, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

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  Individuality, Contemplation, Ecstasy

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

  William Butler Yeats

  Custody, Senses

  Letter to Ellen O'Leary, February 03, 1889.

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• All dreams of the soul
  End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.76

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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.

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  Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

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• It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

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  Love Is, Discipline, True Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

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  Eye, Kissing, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

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• I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.

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  Dream, Book, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

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  Doe, Ethics, Cry

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.73, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I know of the leafy paths that the witches take
  Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,
  And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

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  Halloween, Lakes, Secret

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

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  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

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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

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Race

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

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• Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

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  Kissing, Moon, Hands

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

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• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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  Life, Tombstone, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

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  Children, Men, Wife

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Women, School

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