William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 5

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• only an aching heart
  Conceives a changeless work of art.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Longing, Creation

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.172, Wordsworth Editions

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• When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dance, Two, Kindred

  William Butler Yeats, Glenn Harrington (2002). “William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Man is in love and loves
  what vanishes,
  What more is there to say?

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, And Love

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Men, Doubt

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Gaze no more in the bitter glass
  The demons, with their subtle guile,
  Lift up before us when they pass,
  Or only gaze a little while.

  William Butler Yeats

  Reality, Glasses, Mirrors

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.139, Penguin

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• I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Loss, Lakes

  "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" l. 10 (1893)

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• I cast my heart into my rhymes,
  That you, in the dim coming times,
  May know how my heart went with them
  After the red-rose-bordered hem.

  William Butler Yeats

  Flower, Heart, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.140, Penguin

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• Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Anxiety

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• All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

  William Butler Yeats

  Garden, Earth, Soil

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.244, Hayes Barton Press

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• Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Hair, Yellow

  'Anne Gregory'

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• Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Ethics, Cry

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.73, BoD – Books on Demand

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• In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Class, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
  You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled.
  Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring
  The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Flower, Rose

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.123, Penguin

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• And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Veils, Dropping

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.

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  Kissing, Moon, Hands

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

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• to be choked with hate
  May well be of all evil chances chief.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Evil, May

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

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• And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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  Lasts, Beast, Hours

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

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  Love, Discipline, Fine

  "Memoirs".

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• When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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  Blessed, Heart, Laughing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.200, Wordsworth Editions

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• Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Light, Shadow

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 3

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• Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Heart, Dark

  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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• Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Men, Knows

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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