William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Love

“My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.”

Fire Time Chairs

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Love

“But bear in mind your lover's wage Is what your looking-glass can show, And that he will turn green with rage At all that is not pictured there.”

Beauty Glasses Jealousy

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Sad

“Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.”

Weight Farewell Weary

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Grateful

“I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.”

Book Dream

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Motivated

“A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.”

Men Passion

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Wise

“Before The World Was Made If I make the lashes dark and the eyes more bright and the lips more scarlet, or ask if all be right from mirror after mirror, no vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had before the world was made. What if I look upon a man as though on my beloved, and my blood be cold the while and my heart unmoved? Why should he think me cruel or that he is betrayed? I'd have him love the thing that was before the world was made.”

Heart Eye Dark

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Lonely

“Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”

Nature Fear Lonely

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Angry

“If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf”

Mind Wind Hatred

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Love

“And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.”

Kissing Pay Dancing

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Wise

“A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.”

Sweet Hard Work Kitchen

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Grateful

“I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.”

Men Life Frogs

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Angry

“People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.”

People Opinion Moral

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