William Butler Yeats quotes - page 12

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat. (William Butler Yeats)
She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. View quote
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Till the wilderness cried aloud, A secret between you two, Between the proud and the proud. View quote
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While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless. View quote
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Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; he Served human liberty. View quote
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Come near, come near, come near - Ah, leave me still A little space for the rose-breath to fill! View quote
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And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost. View quote
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The hourly kindness, the day's common speech, The habitual content of each with each When neither soul nor body has been crossed. View quote
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Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul. View quote
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Now his wars on God begin; At stroke of midnight God shall win. View quote
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The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. (William Butler Yeats)
All that sternness amid charm, All that sweetness amid strength? View quote
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Speech after long silence; it is right. View quote
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We are but critics, or but half create, Timid, entangled, empty and abashed, Lacking the countenance of our friends. View quote
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What matter that no cannon had been turned Into a ploughshare? View quote
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I am content to live it all again And yet again. View quote
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In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned; Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those that are not entirely beautiful. View quote
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It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield. View quote
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Be not inhospitable to strangers, lest they be angels in disguise. View quote
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O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance? View quote
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. (William Butler Yeats)
When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars. View quote
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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:. View quote
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Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. View quote
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths. View quote
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