"Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content."
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William Butler Yeats quotes (page 19 of 30)
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"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."
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"What do we know but that we face one another in this place?"
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"We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love"
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"All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye."
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"rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination."
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"O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears."
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"It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care."
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"Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea"
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"I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones."
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"Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease."
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"If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?"
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"Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away."
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"A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew."
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"When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey."
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"Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it."
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