William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Inspired

“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.”

Thinking Book Wise

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil”

Earthquakes Shells Toil

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Love

“What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.”

Love Is Time

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Sad

“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.”

Country Drunk

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Angry

“Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.”

Hands Wise Storm

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Sad

“Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.”

Blood Wings Bravery

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Sad

“What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?”

Girl Death

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Angry

“Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.”

Men Evil

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Happy

“"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.”

Fighting Sea Horse

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Angry

“Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.”

Boys Dog Cat

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Spiritual

“God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.”

Giving Heaven Wings

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Sad

“somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.”

Men Moving Bird

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