Best William Butler Yeats Words
- When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face. Clamber
- Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… Beast
- What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms? Alarms
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall… Beat
- Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. Cannot Know
- The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor. Bestial
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,… All
- I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man. Comes Round
- The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood. Awakened
- So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers… Ahimsa
- Everything in nature is resurrection. Environmental
- Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a… All
- The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. Amended
- Words alone are certain good. Alone
- Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we… Bar
- Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away. Ah
- What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead? Bawd
- When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have… All
- Everything we look upon is blest. Blest
- If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. Inspirational
- Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from… Abstract
- For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers,… All
- Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? Beat
- Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room. Burn
- I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in… Caught
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