William Butler Yeats quotes - page 11

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain. (William Butler Yeats)
Or have you heard that sliding silver-shoed Pale silver-proud queen-woman of the sky, When the sun looked out of his golden hood?-- O that none ever loved but you and I! View quote
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Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. View quote
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But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone, My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone. View quote
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He made the world to be a grassy road Before her wandering feet. View quote
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And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. View quote
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Could the impossible come to pass She would have time to turn her eyes, Her lover thought, upon the glass And on the instant would grow wise. View quote
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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame. View quote
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I had a thought for no one's but your ears: That you were beautiful, and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love. View quote
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The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness That empty the heart. View quote
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O hurry to the ragged wood, for there I will drive all those lovers out and cry- O my share of the world, O yellow hair! No one has ever loved but you and I. (William Butler Yeats)
Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked. View quote
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These are the clouds about the fallen sun, The majesty that shuts his burning eye. View quote
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Some may have blamed you that you took away The verses that could move them on the day. View quote
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The finished man among his enemies?- How in the name of Heaven can he escape That defiling and disfigured shape The mirror of malicious eyes Casts upon his eyes until at last He thinks that shape must be his shape? View quote
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Of what is past, or passing, or to come. View quote
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O do not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. View quote
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A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death. View quote
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. View quote
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But O, in a minute she changed. View quote
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O she had not these ways When all the wild summer was in her gaze. (William Butler Yeats)
This beauty's kinder, yet for a reason I could weep that the old is out of season. View quote
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Yet she, singing upon her road, Half lion, half child, is at peace. View quote
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A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is, All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins. View quote
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When they have but looked upon their images-- Would none had ever loved but you and I! View quote
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