William Butler Yeats Quotes

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• Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Dust, Feet

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

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  Men, Doe

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• The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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  Joy, Tragedy, Periods

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• By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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  Imagination, Logic, Progressive

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• All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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  Soul, Opinion, Empty

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

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  Emotional, Tree, Branches

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• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• There is another world, but it is in this one.

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  Life, World, Chaos

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• A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
  A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
  So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.

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  Lying, Drinking, Home

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

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  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

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  Dance, Angel, Flames

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.102, Penguin

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• The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

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  Dream, Reality, Unseen

  Rebecca Pauline Christine Brugsma, William Butler Yeats (1933). “The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...”

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• Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

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  Dream, Imagination, Vision

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• What can be explained is not poetry.

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  Life, Poetry

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• Where there is nothing, there is God.

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  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Stories of Red Hanrahan: With the Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

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  Inspirational, Wise, Teamwork

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• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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  Life, Disappointment, Long

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• From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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  Happy Birthday, Eye, My Birthday

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.26

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• It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

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  Fighting, Dark, Back Alleys

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one.

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  Roots

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

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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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