William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Lonely

“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...”

Real Marriage Despair

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Spiritual

“Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.”

Sometimes Feet Three

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Creative

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Hands Land Poetry

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Angry

“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 of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?”

Thinking Wind Hatred

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Wise

“Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.”

Ideas Poet Breakfast

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Wise

“Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.”

Needs Wise Patience

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Philosophical

“It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”

Eye Imagination Plato

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Creative

“It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.”

Men Passion Fashion

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Motivated

“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 Till Truth obeyed his call.”

Men Wall Truth

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Creative

“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 the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.”

Eye Song Fool

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Love

“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”

Love Player Stage

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Thoughtful

“What can I but enumerate old themes?”

Theme

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