Knows Quotes by William Butler Yeats

23 Knows quotes by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats blends mythic imagery with personal insight, turning the simple act of knowing into something almost magical. His verses linger, inviting you to sense the unseen layers of experience.

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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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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk…

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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a…

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I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is…

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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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The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is…

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I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his…

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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair,…

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How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd…

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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the…

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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its…

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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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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any…

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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked…

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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them…

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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the…

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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,…

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Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch,…

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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me…

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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's…

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When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for…

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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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