Best William Butler Yeats Quotations
- I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day. Day
- Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom… Beauty
- The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted… Antique
- Dream, dream, for this is also sooth. Dream
- What made us dream that he could comb gray hair? Comb
- Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch. Funny
- Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. Alone
- And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes. Beloved
- Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of. All
- I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be… Earned
- If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest? Blest
- I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it… Body
- I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it… Core
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun… All
- Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost? Doe
- We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We… Brush
- O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when… Afflict
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men… All
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.… All
- Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided… Absurd
- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. Anarchy
- I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. Agree
- I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember Anybody
- Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea. Come Dancing
- The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. All
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