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I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown. — W.B.Yeats

They shall be remembered forever,
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever. — W.B.Yeats

Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or a woman lost? — W.B.Yeats

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ... — William Butler Yeats

Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence. — W.B.Yeats

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self. — W.B.Yeats

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. — William Butler Yeats

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. — William Butler Yeats

Love comes in at the eye. — W.B.Yeats

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden

And learn that the best thing is
To change my loves while dancing
And pay but a kiss for a kiss. — William Butler Yeats

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — W.B.Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. — William Butler Yeats

And softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. — W.B.Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? — William Butler Yeats

I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats

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. — William Butler Yeats

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. — William Butler Yeats

Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. — William Butler Yeats

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained. — William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. — W.B.Yeats

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ... — William Butler Yeats

Earth in beauty dressed
Awaits returning spring.
All true love must die,
Alter at the best
Into some lesser thing.
Prove that I lie. — William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - W. B. Yeats — Daniel Coyle

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

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

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. — William Butler Yeats

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. — William Butler Yeats

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

O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats

What can I but enumerate old themes? — William Butler Yeats

....tradition gives the one thing many shapes. — W.B.Yeats

All things change, save only the fear of change. — W.B.Yeats

Never leave the door open at this hour, or evil may come to you. — W.B.Yeats

We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love — W.B.Yeats

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. — W.B.Yeats

Our words must seem to be inevitable. — William Butler Yeats

Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply. — Patrick Kavanagh

better doubtless to believe much unreason and a little truth than to deny for denial's sake truth and unreason alike, — W.B.Yeats

No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands. — William Butler Yeats