William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 6

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• Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Men, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore,
  Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be,
  Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Sea, White

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.130, Penguin

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• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wings, Purple, Midnight

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

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• It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Discipline, Fine

  "Memoirs".

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• All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

  William Butler Yeats

  Garden, Earth, Soil

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.244, Hayes Barton Press

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• Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Hair, Yellow

  'Anne Gregory'

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• When a man grows old his joy
  Grows more deep day after day,
  His empty heart is full at length
  But he has need of all that strength
  Because of the increasing Night
  That opens her mystery and fright.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Heart, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• An intellectual hate is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Intellectual, Worst

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• The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

  William Butler Yeats

  Hurt, Pain, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Yet they that know all things but know
  That all this life can give us is
  A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Laughter, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.188, William Butler Yeats

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• There's keen delight in what we have:
  The rattle of pebbles on the shore
  Under the receding wave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heritage, Delight, Pebbles

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hatred, Intellectual, Social Justice

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 57 (1919)

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• What do we know but that we face one another in this place?

  William Butler Yeats

  Faces, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.354, Simon and Schuster

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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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• It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

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  Love, Beautiful, World

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.354, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

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  Men, Moments, Endure

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.181, Wordsworth Editions

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Loss, Lakes

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• For such,
  Being made beautiful overmuch,
  Consider beauty a sufficient end,
  Lose natural kindness and maybe
  The heart-revealing intimacy
  That chooses right, and never find a friend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For My Daughter”

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• to be choked with hate
  May well be of all evil chances chief.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Evil, May

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

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• I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

  William Butler Yeats

  Night, Long, Solitude

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
  For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
  And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
  With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.

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  Dream, Lost Love, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.186, Hayes Barton Press

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Flower, Roots

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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