William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 5

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

  William Butler Yeats

  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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• The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1990). “W. B. Yeats: A Vision and Related Writings”, Random House (UK)

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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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• It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Believe, Years

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• All men live in suffering
  I know as few can know,
  Whether they take the upper road
  Or stay content on the low.

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  Men, Suffering, Lows

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.790, 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Man is in love and loves
  what vanishes,
  What more is there to say?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, And Love

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• Gaze no more in the bitter glass
  The demons, with their subtle guile,
  Lift up before us when they pass,
  Or only gaze a little while.

  William Butler Yeats

  Reality, Glasses, Mirrors

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.139, Penguin

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• only an aching heart
  Conceives a changeless work of art.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Longing, Creation

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Halloween, Lakes, Secret

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

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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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• When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Two, Kindred

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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  Love, Unique, Intellectual

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Collaboration, Clock

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Men, Doubt

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Women, School

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Book, Hands

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

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Ireland And The Irish, Fiddle

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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• The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy, Innocence

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• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Lasts, Beast, Hours

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Responsibility, Advice

  "Responsibilities". Book by William Butler Yeats. Epigraph, 1914.

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• The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hours, Pleasure, Poor

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster

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