William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 6

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• An intellectual hate is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Intellectual, Worst

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• Yet they that know all things but know
  That all this life can give us is
  A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Laughter, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.188, William Butler Yeats

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• For such,
  Being made beautiful overmuch,
  Consider beauty a sufficient end,
  Lose natural kindness and maybe
  The heart-revealing intimacy
  That chooses right, and never find a friend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For My Daughter”

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• The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Good Luck, Long, House

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wings, Purple, Midnight

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

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• I broke my heart in two
  So hard I struck.
  What matter? for I know
  That out of rock,
  Out of a desolate source,
  Love leaps upon its course.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Two, What Matters

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Moments, Endure

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.181, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything we look upon is blest.

  William Butler Yeats

  Looks, Look Up

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

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• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

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  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

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• The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

  William Butler Yeats

  Hurt, Pain, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
  With planets in His care,
  Had pity on the least of things
  Asleep upon a chair.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Purple, Care

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Beautiful, World

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.354, Wordsworth Editions

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• All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, Half, World

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hatred, Intellectual, Social Justice

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 57 (1919)

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• Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

  William Butler Yeats

  Imagination, Doe, Losing

  'The Tower' pt. 2

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• The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1990). “W. B. Yeats: A Vision and Related Writings”, Random House (UK)

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• Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Flower, Roots

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

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• Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Isolated, Absolution

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  William Butler Yeats

  Expression, Literature, Mood

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

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• Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fire, Mountain, Decay

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

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• I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
  For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
  And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
  With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Lost Love, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.186, Hayes Barton Press

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• Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Moving, Light

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.99, Penguin

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