William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Adventurous

“Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.”

Heart Feet Dust

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Grieving

“Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.”

Fire Mountain Decay

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Philosophical

“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?”

Literature Expression Mood

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Angry

“A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.”

Men Drinking

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Lonely

“And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.”

Time Lonely

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Courageous

“All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.”

Running God Nature

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Courageous

“Many times man lives and dies Betweeen his two eternities, That of race and that of soul, And ancient Ireland knew it all. Whether man die in his bed Or the rifle knocks him dead”

Men Life Race

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Philosophical

“I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.”

Atheist Mystery Agree

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Spiritual

“Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided deliberately four or five years ago to make, next to my poetry, the most important pursuit of my life...If I had not made magic my constant study I could not have written a single word of my Blake book, nor would The Countess Kathleen have ever come to exist. The mystical life is the center of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.”

Thinking Writing Book

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Romantic

“Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.”

Hands Land Sea

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Creative

“All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it”

World Art Half

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Love

“My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.”

Soul Sex Happiness

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