William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.”

Men Land Italian

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.”

Men Gone Praying

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Wise

“Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.”

Heart Example

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Wise

“Words alone are certain good.”

Certain

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Wise

“Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.”

Mind Fall Learning

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Sad

“on the instant clamorous eaves, A climbing moon upon an empty sky, And all that lamentation of the leaves, Could but compose man's image and his cry.”

Men Nature Moon

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Sad

“We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.”

Tragedy

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Angry

“The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.”

Problem Drunk

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Sad

“Pale brows, still hands and dim hair, I had a beautiful friend And dreamed that the old despair Would end in love in the end.”

Hands Beautiful Hope

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Romantic

“Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.”

Song Fashion Loss

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Philosophical

“All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.”

Mind Soul Memories

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Spiritual

“I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?”

Men Responsibility Faith

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