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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
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
Hammer your thoughts into unity.
— William Butler Yeats
A passion-driven exultant man sings outSentences that he has never thought ... — William Butler Yeats
Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it.
— W.B.Yeats
Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peace
By manifold illusion ... — William Butler Yeats
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty ...
— William Butler Yeats
Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.
— William Butler Yeats
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
— William Butler 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
Education is not filling
— William Butler Yeats
To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart
— 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
I say that Roger CasementDid what he had to do,
He died upon the gallows
But that is nothing new. — William Butler Yeats
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
— William Butler Yeats
Wine enters through the mouth,Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh. — W.B.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
Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
— William Butler 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 meetI tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
— William Butler Yeats
What if the Church and the StateAre the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour. — William Butler Yeats
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngWe loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler Yeats
If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
— William Butler Yeats
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.
— William Butler Yeats
When we have blamed the wind we can blame love ...
— William Butler Yeats
The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.
— William Butler Yeats
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
— 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
People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.
— William Butler Yeats
Only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art. — William Butler Yeats
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
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
— William Butler Yeats
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
— William Butler Yeats
The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
— William Butler Yeats
While man can still his body keepWine or love drug him to sleep,
Waking he thanks the Lord that he
Has body and its stupidity ... — William Butler Yeats
the cloak of Sorrow: O
— W.B.Yeats
O would, beloved, that you layUnder the dock-leaves in the ground,
While lights were paling one by one. — William Butler Yeats
Give to these children, new from the world,Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then ... — William Butler Yeats
What hurts the soul My soul adores — W.B.Yeats
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
— W.B.Yeats
The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
— Jack Butler Yeats
Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
— William Butler Yeats
If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
— William Butler Yeats
The Light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deedThe Shadow of Shadows looks on the deed alone. — W.B.Yeats
....tradition gives the one thing many shapes.
— W.B.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
Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand ... — 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
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 releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — 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
What can I but enumerate old themes?
— 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
All things change, save only the fear of change.
— 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
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
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David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision
— James Hollis
Words alone are certain good.
— William Butler Yeats
And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.
— William Butler Yeats
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
— W.B.Yeats
What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
— William Butler Yeats
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is
— W.B.Yeats
O heart, we are old;The living beauty is for younger men:
We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears. — William Butler Yeats
While on that old grey stone I satUnder the old wind-broken tree,
I knew that One is animate,
Mankind inanimate phantasy. — William Butler Yeats
Where there is nothing, there is God.
— W.B.Yeats
And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
— William Butler Yeats
My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.
— William Butler Yeats
