Bed Quotes by William Butler Yeats

9 Bed quotes by William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats offers nine compact verses on beds, each echoing his lyrical depth. The collection feels like a quiet meditation, inviting readers to linger on the simple yet profound moments of rest.

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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it…

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Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods…

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than…

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What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's…

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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor…

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on…

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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I…

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But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough…

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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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