Psychology Quotes by William Butler Yeats

24 Psychology quotes by William Butler Yeats

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W. B. Yeats’s 24 verses on psychology blend mythic imagery with personal insight. His lyrical approach treats the mind as a landscape of symbols, inviting readers to wander through its hidden valleys.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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May God be praised for woman That gives up all her mind, A man may find in no man a friendship of…

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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

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I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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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 can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my…

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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great…

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We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their…

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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen…

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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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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave…

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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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In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out…

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“The Magi" Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied…

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Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear…

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“Literature is, to my mind, the great teaching power of the world, the ultimate creator of all values, and it is this,…

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

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And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth…

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My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone,…

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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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