William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 2

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• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

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• If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Wisdom, Suffering

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• Everything in nature is resurrection.

  William Butler Yeats

  Environmental, Resurrection

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• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

  William Butler Yeats

  Joy, Tragedy, Abiding

  "Spencer Tracy: A Biography". Book by James Curtis, www.indiewire.com. 2011.

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• Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Fall, Falling Apart

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Healing, Bones, Filled

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin

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• It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy, Emotion, Trouble

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Believe, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”

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• Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Eye, Glasses

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• Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Atheism, Way

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• We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Taste, Reason, Feels

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• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Numbers, Progress

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• The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Soul, Tragedy

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Tired, Heart, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.215

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• And wisdom is a butterfly
  And not a gloomy bird of prey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Butterfly, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

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• Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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  Party, Character, Fighting

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• Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Bags, Littles

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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  Sleep, Knees, Beloved

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• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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  Life, Heart, World

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

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• Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Vision, Literature

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Differences, Unity, Genius

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