William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Wise

“Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make”

Art Nature Byzantium

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.”

Thinking Self Energy

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Inspired

“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”

Men Animal

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Wise

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

Thinking Art

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Happy

“Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.”

Law Might Beauty

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Thoughtful

“Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.”

Long Moving

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Hopeful

“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

Youth Phoenix

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Hopeful

“Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.”

Death Spring Summer

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Nostalgic

“O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”

Worst Fine Rogues

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Philosophical

“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.”

Believe Ideas Doe

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Inspired

“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”

Thinking War Truth

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Wise

“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”

Growing Up Shapes Toes

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