William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  William Butler Yeats

  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 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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• 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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• 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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• A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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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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• 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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• 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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

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

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

  William Butler Yeats

  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.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Moments, Endure

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

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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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• 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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