William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Lonely

“Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns.”

White Ears Calling

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love”

Heart Substance Enmity

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Philosophical

“Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.”

Eye Judging

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Philosophical

“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”

Knows Faces

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Sad

“O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”

Men Heart Tears

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Sad

“It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.”

Sea Lakes Fishing

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Sad

“All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.”

Eye Streams

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Creative

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”

Imagination Rhetoric

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Lonely

“Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.”

Life Spring Lonely

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Sad

“I knew that I had seen, had seen at last That girl my unremembering nights hold fast Or else my dreams that fly If I should rub an eye, And yet in flying fling into my meat A crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.”

Dream Girl Crazy

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Philosophical

“For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.”

Life Wisdom Moon

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Philosophical

“When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.”

Writing Needs Bakers

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