Best William Butler Yeats Thoughts
- Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about… All
- I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I,… Aunt
- Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? Beauty
- Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in… All
- I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . . All
- When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?. Better
- Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible. Condescend
- We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the… Best
- Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever… Any
- I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now. Ale
- The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style. Alchemist
- I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English. Become Less
- The living can assist the imagination of the dead... Assist
- The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars! Immortality
- We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty... Closed
- A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics. Amid
- Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude... Gone
- It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… Abstract
- Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience. All
- All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection,… All
- Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. Bid
- Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence. Fly
- I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some… Found
- What can I but enumerate old themes? Enumerate
- We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body. Been
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