William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 3

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• Myself I must remake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Remakes

  1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

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• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Believe, I Believe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.344

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• Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Teaching, Fire, Filling Up

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• Hammer your thoughts into unity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Unity, Hammers

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Under the Moon”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat
  Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast,
  Drowning love's lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Peace, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.49, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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  Life Changing, Book, Writing

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

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• All that I have said and done,
  Now that I am old and ill,
  Turns into a question till
  I lie awake night after night
  And never get the answers right.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Night, Done

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

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• Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

  William Butler Yeats

  Buckets, Hills, Companion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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• The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

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  Life, Stars, Blood

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  World, Faces, Made

  1928 'A Woman Young and Old', part 2 'Before the World was Made', stanza 1. Collected in The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933).

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• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Women, School

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• Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lovely, Delight, Kind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

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• We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Poetry, Argument, Quarrels

  "Anima Hominis" (1924)

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• When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Book

  "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)

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• Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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  Dream, Dark, Night

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

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• Love comes in at the eye.

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  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

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• Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

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  Heart, Big Heart, Bigs

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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  Love, Love Is, Inequality

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

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  Love, Believe, Self

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
  For there the mystical brotherhood
  Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
  And river and stream work out their will.

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  Nature, Heart, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

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  Stars, Men, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

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  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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

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• I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Convince Us, Want

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• And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.

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  Dance, Ireland And The Irish, Fiddle

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.60, Wordsworth Editions

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