Lovers Quotes by William Butler Yeats

12 Lovers quotes by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats’s poetic craft brings a lyrical weight to love’s mysteries. This dozen verses, though brief, carry his signature blend of mythic resonance and personal longing, making them a compact yet powerful read.

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Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love…

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I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

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Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted, Their heads being turned with praise and flattery; And that is why their lovers are…

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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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…

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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…

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All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at…

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Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;…

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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet…

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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is…

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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers…

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I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And…

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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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