"Everything we look upon is blest."
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William Butler Yeats quotes (page 17 of 30)
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"I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course."
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"Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day."
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"Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream."
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"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."
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"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."
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"All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him."
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"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"
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"What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?"
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"I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor."
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"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."
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"Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand."
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"A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk."
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"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"
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"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."
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"And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight."
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"There is only one romance the Soul's."
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"He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair."
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"I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core."
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"Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers."
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