William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.”

Heart Mother Wind

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities; people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.”

Men Cities Class

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Melancholic

“The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.”

Enemy Innocence

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Love

“All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.”

Dream Beautiful

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Motivated

“Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.”

Fire Teaching

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Love

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.”

Dream Women Beauty

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Courageous

“For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”

Writing World Struggle

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Peaceful

“Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion.”

Together Civilization Uprooting

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Philosophical

“Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.”

Soul God Hatred

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Philosophical

“Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.”

Book Reading Pride

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Love

“I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?”

Hate Stars Wind

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Funny

“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, Nor thought of the leveling wind.”

Mind Wind Burden

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