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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
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
Ilove'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
All dreams of the soulEnd 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
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 hostWhen 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 playsThat 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
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 meetI tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ... — William Butler Yeats
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; youngWe loved each other and were ignorant. — William Butler 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 byCame out of a needle's eye ... — William Butler 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
What if I bade you leaveThe cavern of the mind?
There's better exercise
In the sunlight and wind. — William Butler 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 voiceAnd 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 labourerWho wastes his blood to be another's dream.
-from Fergus and the Druid — W.B.Yeats
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
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 hierarchyThat 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 youthNeither 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 brideThat cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler 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
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
O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable hostIs 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
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
O heart, be at peace, becauseNor 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
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
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 knowThat 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
