Feet Quotes by William Butler Yeats

10 Feet quotes by William Butler Yeats

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A small set of ten William Butler Yeats reflections on feet gives you a quick taste of his poetic imagination. It’s a concise entry for a moment of literary pause.

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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on…

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

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Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet…

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by…

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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can…

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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of…

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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…

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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot…

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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid…

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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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