Best William Butler Yeats Quotes
- An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth… Accursed
- 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 own sweet will… All
- If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf Assault
- Who mocks at music mocks at love. Funny
- Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality. Based
- Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the… Asleep
- Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward… All
- Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. Example
- The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. Content
- The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be… All
- Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. Beauty
- I hear it in the deep heart's core. Core
- All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,… All
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. Fed
- O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. Comforted
- For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find… Beautiful
- A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech. All
- What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's… Absurdity
- While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of… Came
- Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for… Action
- It seems to me that love, if fine, is essentially a discipline. Discipline
- By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. Die
- Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. All
- Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. Beyond
- The poet is a good citizen turned inside out. Citizen
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