William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 5

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Suffering, Lows

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.790, 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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• God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

  William Butler Yeats

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

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  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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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Dust, Feet, Earth

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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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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy, Innocence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• I broke my heart in two
  So hard I struck.
  What matter? for I know
  That out of rock,
  Out of a desolate source,
  Love leaps upon its course.

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  Heart, Two, What Matters

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• I cast my heart into my rhymes,
  That you, in the dim coming times,
  May know how my heart went with them
  After the red-rose-bordered hem.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Veils, Dropping

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

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• The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drunk, Problem, Sober

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• The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Light, Shadow

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3

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