All things Quotes by William Butler Yeats

8 All things quotes by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats’ verses often dance between myth and reality. These eight lines showcase his evocative style, inviting you to wander through the vast landscape of human thought.

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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out…

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All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.

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And God would bid His warfare cease, Saying all things were well; And softly make a rosy peace, A peace of Heaven…

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of…

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A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the…

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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs…

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Time can but make her beauty over again.

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…

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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no…

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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour…

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That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action,…

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…

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