Night Quotes by William Butler Yeats

19 Night quotes by William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats’s night verses weave myth and mood into a lyrical tapestry. Nineteen concise lines invite readers into a world where darkness sparks imagination and deep contemplation.

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Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's…

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I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's…

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The old priest Peter Gilligan Was weary night and day; For half his flock were in their beds, Or under green sods…

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Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.

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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream…

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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which…

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The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a…

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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night…

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Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden…

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When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he…

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The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

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While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be…

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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 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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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake…

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I knew that I had seen, had seen at last That girl my unremembering nights hold fast Or else my dreams that…

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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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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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