William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Courageous

“Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.”

Struggle Cities Brother

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Angry

“So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.”

Giving Long Numbers

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Hopeful

“Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”

Dream

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Philosophical

“What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?”

Dream Made

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Happy

“All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.”

Fall Gay

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Melancholic

“The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.”

Dream Joy Truth

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Philosophical

“Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart.”

Heart Littles Battle

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Angry

“Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.”

Heaven Tragedy Scene

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Philosophical

“Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.”

Literature Pieces Becoming

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Angry

“No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.”

People Art Conquer

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Happy

“Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.”

Ideas Needs Stories

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Love

“Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.”

Men Hate Fate

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