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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

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

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. — William Butler Yeats

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known. — William Butler 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

I
love's skein upon the ground,
My body in the tomb
Shall leap into the light lost
In my mother's womb. — William Butler Yeats

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire. — William Butler Yeats

I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. — W.B.Yeats

I had a thought for no one's but your ears; / That you were beautiful, and that I strove / To love you in the old high way of love; — W.B.Yeats

All dreams of the soul
End in a beautiful man's or woman's body. — 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

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

Everything that's lovely is
But a brief, dreamy kind of delight. — W.B.Yeats

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied." — William Butler Yeats

If Michael, leader of God's host
When Heaven and Hell are met,
Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
He would his deeds forget. — William Butler Yeats

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

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping ... I hear it in the deep heart's core. — 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

Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. — 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

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

And no more turn aside and brood
Upon love's bitter mystery; — W.B.Yeats

It's a long lane that has no turning. — W.B.Yeats

It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat. — William Butler Yeats

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. — William Butler Yeats

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — 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

All the stream that's roaring by
Came out of a needle's eye ... — William Butler Yeats

Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all my ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart. — W.B.Yeats

What's the use of held note or a held line
That cannot be assailed for reassurance? — W.B.Yeats

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. — William Butler Yeats

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories. — Saki

What if I bade you leave
The cavern of the mind?
There's better exercise
In the sunlight and wind. — William Butler Yeats

So like a bit of stone I lie
Under a broken tree.
I could recover if I shrieked
My heart's agony
To passing bird, but I am dumb. — W.B.Yeats

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. — William Butler Yeats

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone. — William Butler Yeats

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

A king is but a foolish labourer
Who wastes his blood to be another's dream.
-from Fergus and the Druid — W.B.Yeats

Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me
("The Circus Animal's Desertion") — W.B.Yeats

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times ... certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language. — T. S. Eliot

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. — William Butler Yeats

Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming — Max Barry

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes? — William Butler Yeats

I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch. — William Butler Yeats

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ? — William Butler Yeats

The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye. — William Butler Yeats

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. — William Butler Yeats

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

The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. — William Butler Yeats

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler Yeats

I think that a fierce woman's better, a woman
That breaks away when you have thought her won,
For I'd be fed and hungry at one time. — W.B.Yeats

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. — William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love. — William Butler Yeats

I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light. — 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

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

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'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

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 the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet. — 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

O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care. — William Butler Yeats

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters. — W.B.Yeats

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. — Howard Nemerov

Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away. — William Butler Yeats

In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
That old perplexity an empty purse,
Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. — William Butler Yeats

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call. — William Butler Yeats

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree. — 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

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone
It's with O' Leary in the grave
(September 1913) — W.B.Yeats

Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ... — William Butler Yeats

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang. — William Butler Yeats

There is only one romance the Soul's. — William Butler Yeats

Just do it. Now. — M. Yeats

I hear it in the deep heart's core. — William Butler Yeats

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

I hear water lapping with low sound by the shore ... I hear it in the deep heart's core. — W.B.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

What hurts the soul
My soul adores — 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