William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.”

Pleasure Hours Poor

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Rebellious

“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”

Goes On Revolution Cannons

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Funny

“The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.”

Men Politics

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Lonely

“O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.”

Heart Turns

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Love

“Love comes in at the eye.”

Inspirational Life Eye

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Spiritual

“The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all”

Self Spirit

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Creative

“I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.”

Fire Chaos

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Philosophical

“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 our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.”

Self Moving Cities

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Love

“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 love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.”

Running Stars Wise

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Philosophical

“A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.”

Spiritual Expression Flames

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Sad

“Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.”

Heart Animal Sick

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Love

“The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart.”

Eye Hair Wind

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