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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
They shall be alive forever,
They shall be speaking forever,
The people shall hear them forever. — W.B.Yeats
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
— 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
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings. — W.B.Yeats
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
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
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
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
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
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
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
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
It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
— 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
O heart, we are old;
The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
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
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
The heart's grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love — 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