Best William Butler Yeats Lines
- Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. Flattering
- I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing… Accusing
- It's certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat. Certain
- Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind,… Behind
- O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. Died
- John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from… All
- It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. Adam
- We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for… All
- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, Blood
- And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. Bone
- It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we… Always Something
- I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. Carry
- Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring… Always Getting
- The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away Blunders
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again. Age
- There is no deformity But saves us from a dream. Deformity
- What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? Ashes
- Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness. Bodies
- Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out. Ancient
- Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as… Both
- I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will… All
- Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. Died
- Our words must seem to be inevitable. Inevitable
- From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but… Air
- Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he… Accident
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