Made Quotes by William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats’s verses on what is 'made' blend myth, mysticism, and personal yearning. Twenty‑three lines give a taste of his profound, often paradoxical, poetic vision.

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...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...

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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

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The Father and His angelic hierarchy That made the magnitude and glory there Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal.…

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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the…

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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right,…

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When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds…

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A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

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Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval…

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If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right…

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I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long…

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Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study…

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...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves…

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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant…

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THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew…

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine…

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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling…

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Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may…

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The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain…

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds…

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe…

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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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