Soul Quotes by William Butler Yeats

25 Soul quotes by William Butler Yeats

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Yeats weaves myth and personal yearning into his thoughts on the soul, creating a tapestry of longing and revelation. This collection of twenty‑five verses invites you to feel the cadence of his poetic spirit.

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There is only one romance the Soul's.

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Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?

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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

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If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

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Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring…

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But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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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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Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those…

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My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow…

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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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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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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its…

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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror…

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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. .…

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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society…

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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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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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All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and…

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...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the…

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul…

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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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Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it…

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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and…

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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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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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