William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 14

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• Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Light, Cast Away

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.558, Simon and Schuster

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• The friends that have it I do wrong
  Whenever I remake a song,
  Should know what issue is at stake:
  It is myself that I remake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Song, Issues

  "The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats". Book by W. B. Yeats, 1908.

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• A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Lines, Pavement

  In the Seven Woods (1903) "Adam's Curse"

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• Being young you have not known
  The fool's triumph, nor yet
  Love lost as soon as won,
  Nor the best labourer dead
  And all the sheaves to bind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lost Love, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.99, Wordsworth Editions

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• O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
  Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
  And bid them wander obeying your will,
  Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flames, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• A tree there is that from its topmost bough
  Is half all glittering flame and half all green
  Abounding foliage moistened with the dew;
  And half is half and yet is all the scene;
  And half and half consume what they renew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flames, Tree, Dew

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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  Wine, Sleep, Faces

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Heart, Giving

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• If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

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  Soul, Looks, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.155

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• Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
  With your harmonious choir
  Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
  That my old care may cease.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Compassion, Fire

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.34

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• I long for truth, and yet
  I cannot stay from that
  My better self disowns,
  For a man's attention
  Brings such satisfaction
  To the craving in my bones.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Men, Self

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.523, Hayes Barton Press

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• Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Hatred

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"

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• Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

  William Butler Yeats

  Earthquakes, Toil, Shells

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• I thought no more was needed
  Youth to prolong
  Than dumb-bell and foil
  To keep the body young.
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Dumb

  'A Song'

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• Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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  World, Guests, Tongue

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.179, Wordsworth Editions

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• I knew that I had seen, had seen at last
  That girl my unremembering nights hold fast
  Or else my dreams that fly
  If I should rub an eye,
  And yet in flying fling into my meat
  A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.

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  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.233, Hayes Barton Press

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• What can be shown?
  What true love be?
  All could be known or shown
  If Time were but gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Knowledge, Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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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.

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  Journey, Men, Thinking

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

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• All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

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  Sweet, Self, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• O heart, we are old;
  The living beauty is for younger men:
  We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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  Heart, Men, Tears

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “"Easter, 1916" and Other Poems”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

  William Butler Yeats

  Spiritual, Expression, Flames

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Rhetoric

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• On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Death, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

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• All think what other people think;
  All know the man their neighbor knows.
  Lord, what would they say
  Did their Catullus walk that way?

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  Men, Thinking, Gossip

  "The Scholars" l. 9 (1919)

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