William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 4

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• Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
  For there the mystical brotherhood
  Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
  And river and stream work out their will.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Heart, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Adversity, Temptation, Soul

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• When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

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  Sweet, Soul, Done

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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

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

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  Heart, Big Heart, Bigs

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

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

  William Butler Yeats

  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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• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

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  Wise, Book, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blessed, Heart, Laughing

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Ethics, Cry

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

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• Everything we look upon is blest.

  William Butler Yeats

  Looks, Look Up

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

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dream

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

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

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

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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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• God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

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  Dust, Feet, Earth

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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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• 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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• 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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• I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, People, Earth

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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