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title: "5 Glasses Quotes By William Butler Yeats"
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> [Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/gaze-no-more-in-the-bitter-glass-the-demons-with-their-subtle-guile/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/but-bear-in-mind-your-lover-s-wage-is-what-your-looking-glass-can/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/wine-enters-through-the-mouth-love-the-eyes-i-raise-the-glass-to-my/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/the-true-faith-discovered-was-when-painted-panel-statuary-glass/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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> [But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/but-stories-that-live-longest-are-sung-above-the-glass-and-parnell/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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## Other authors on Glasses

## More by William Butler Yeats

> [Time can but make her beauty over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/time-can-but-make-her-beauty-over-again/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-would-have-touched-it-like-a-child-but-knew-my-finger-could-but/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/you-know-what-the-englishman-s-idea-of-compromise-is-he-says-some/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/beloved-let-your-eyes-half-close-and-your-heart-beat-over-my-heart/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/that-toil-of-growing-up-the-ignominy-of-boyhood-the-distress-of/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-see-a-schoolboy-when-i-think-of-him-with-face-and-nose-pressed-to-a/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/only-god-my-dear-could-love-you-for-yourself-alone-and-not-your/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-can-only-begin-to-live-when-we-conceive-life-as-tragedy/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-know-that-i-shall-meet-my-fate-somewhere-among-the-clouds-above/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/great-literature-has-always-been-written-in-a-like-spirit-and-is/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/where-the-wave-of-moonlight-glosses-the-dim-gray-sands-with-light-far/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/his-element-is-so-fine-being-sharpened-by-his-death-to-drink-from-the/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-poets-would-die-of-loneliness-but-for-women-and-we-choose-our-men/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/love-is-created-and-preserved-by-intellectual-analysis-for-we-love/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

> [Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/who-dreamed-that-beauty-passes-like-a-dream-for-these-red-lips-with/)

[William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/)

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