William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 4

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• In dreams begins responsibility.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."

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• Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

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  Eye, Kissing, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.493, Simon and Schuster

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• Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

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  Custody, Senses

  Letter to Ellen O'Leary, February 03, 1889.

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• Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

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  Individuality, Contemplation, Ecstasy

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

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  Love Is, Discipline, True Love Is

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

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• When you are old and gray 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.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Retirement

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"

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• When a man grows old his joy
  Grows more deep day after day,
  His empty heart is full at length
  But he has need of all that strength
  Because of the increasing Night
  That opens her mystery and fright.

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  Fear, Heart, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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  Joy, Overcoming, Triumph

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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• Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.

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  Inspirational, Past, Disrespect

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• Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

  William Butler Yeats

  Adversity, Temptation, Soul

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• And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

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• The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

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  Hours, Pleasure, Poor

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.638, Simon and Schuster

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• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

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  Children, Men, Wife

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

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• In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

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  Dream, Responsibility, Advice

  "Responsibilities". Book by William Butler Yeats. Epigraph, 1914.

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• Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

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  Love, Romantic, Wine

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.70, Library of Alexandria

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• All men live in suffering
  I know as few can know,
  Whether they take the upper road
  Or stay content on the low.

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  Men, Suffering, Lows

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.790, Simon and Schuster

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• It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

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  Happiness, Believe, Years

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• All dreams of the soul
  End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.76

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• God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

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  Men, Thinking, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

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  Enemy, Innocence

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• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

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  Life, Tombstone, Eye

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

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• Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

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  Dust, Feet, Earth

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• Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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  Wind, Collaboration, Clock

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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  Love, Unique, Intellectual

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.

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  Hate, People, Earth

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

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