William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 20

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• I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Thinking, Censorship

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Censorship of Films Bill, June 07, 1923.

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• Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, World, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Player, Stage

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.181

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• Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
  Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
  My child sleeps on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Sleep, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.101, William Butler Yeats

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• But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Sole, Whole

  "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" l. 13 (1932)

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• And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Kindness, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

  William Butler Yeats

  Clothes, Soul, Naked

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Filling, Lighting A Fire

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• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Men, Thinking

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

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• For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Loses

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.289, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• There is no release
  In a bodkin or disease,
  Nor can there be a work so great
  As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Dirty

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.179

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

  William Butler Yeats

  Broken Heart, Sacrifice, Long

  "Easter 1916" l. 57 (1921)

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• Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

  William Butler Yeats

  Future, Years, Sea

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

  William Butler Yeats

  Air, Soul, London

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”

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• A mouth that has no moisture and no breath
  Breathless mouths may summon;
  I hail the superhuman;
  I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Greatness, Moisture, Mouths

  "Byzantium" l. 15 (1933)

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• A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
  Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
  Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
  It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Mad, Shade

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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• What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Hair, Made

  Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

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• On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
  A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
  A Buddha, hand at rest,
  Hand lifted up that blest;
  And right between these two a girl at play
  That, it may be, had danced her life away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Rocks, Hands

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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• While man can still his body keep
  Wine or love drug him to sleep,
  Waking he thanks the Lord that he
  Has body and its stupidity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Sleep, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.298, Wordsworth Editions

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• My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd.
  "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,
  "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Father, Land

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Mind, Half

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• even
  The bed of love, that in the imagination
  Had seemed to be the giver of all peace,
  Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting,
  And as soon finished.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wine, Imagination, Bed

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• A speckled cat and a tame hare
  Eat at my hearthstone
  And sleep there;
  And both look up to me alone
  For learning and defence
  As I look up to Providence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Cat, Responsibility

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.40, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• All things fall and are built again,
  And those that build them again are gay.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Gay, Rebirth

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

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