William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 10

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• Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

  William Butler Yeats

  Ideas, Breakfast, Poet

  William Butler Yeats (1994). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. V: Later Essays”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.

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  Italian, Men, Land

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• Through winter-time we call on spring,
  And through the spring on summer call,
  And when the abounding hedges ring
  Declare that winter's best of all:
  And after that there's nothing good
  Because the spring time has not come-
  Not know that what disturbs our blood
  Is but its longing for the tomb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Spring

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Tower: A Facsimile Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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

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  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 will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Night, Lakes

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

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• Words alone are certain good.

  William Butler Yeats

  Certain

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

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• Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Farewell, Weight, Weary

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Hour Glass”, p.17, Yokai Publishing

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• When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

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  Sweet, Soul, Done

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• For wisdom is the property of the dead,
  A something incompatible with life; and power,
  Like everything that has the stain of blood,
  A property of the living; but no stain
  Can come upon the visage of the moon
  When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Wisdom, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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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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• When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

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  Wise, Book, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Thinking, Lust

  'The Spur'

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• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Fighting, Philosopher

  "The Letters of W.B. Yeats".

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• Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”

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• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

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  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

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• All the stream that's roaring by
  Came out of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Roaring, Streams

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.288, Simon and Schuster

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• We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Substance, Enmity

  The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The

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• For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Fairy, Empty Souls

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

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  Life, Men, Play

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one romance the Soul's.

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  Inspirational, Romance, Soul

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• My soul had found
  All happiness in its own cause or ground.
  Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
  Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
  Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
  And must the common round of day resume.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Sex, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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• on the instant clamorous eaves,
  A climbing moon upon an empty sky,
  And all that lamentation of the leaves,
  Could but compose man's image and his cry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Nature, Men, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!
  The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goes On, Revolution, Cannons

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.267, Wordsworth Editions

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• A drunkard is a dead man
  And all dead men are drunk.

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  Drinking, Men, Drunk

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.268, Wordsworth Editions

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• I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

  William Butler Yeats

  Atheist, Mystery, Agree

  Letter to George William Russell, July 01, 1921.

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