William Butler Yeats Quotes About Mask

Quotes about: Mask

• Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

  William Butler Yeats

  Personality, Style, Hot

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

• The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?"

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.76, Wordsworth Editions

• Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Evil, Imagination

  "The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies".

• I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Self, Energy

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.413

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