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William Butler Yeats Quote: “God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are afraid To tell them a plain story.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon’s pot-bellied I get a laughing fit...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “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 Quote: “Though leaves are many, the root is one.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “What can I but enumerate old themes?”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Style, personality – deliberately adopted and therefore a mask – is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “A terrible beauty is born.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day’s war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “All the stream that’s roaring by Came out of a needle’s eye...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought – asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Though pedantry denies, It’s plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “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 Quote: “O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic’s heart.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Men come, men go, all things remain in God.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other’s, We were so much at one.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “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 Quote: “I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which...”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.”
William Butler Yeats Quote: “Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.”
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