William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Happy

“now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.”

Sleep Wine Ephesians

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Nostalgic

“But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.”

Country Stories Glasses

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Calm

“... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.”

Marriage Bird

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Love

“Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.”

Love Love Is

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Lonely

“Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.”

Hands Garden Rivers

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Peaceful

“There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.”

Wings Purple Midnight

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Grateful

“Everything we look upon is blest.”

Looks Look Up

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Sad

“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.”

Men Moments

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Sad

“All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.”

Men Suffering Lows

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Peaceful

“And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.”

Morning Veils Dropping

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Heartbroken

“I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.”

Heart Two What Matters

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Philosophical

“Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.”

Heart Summer Winter

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