QUOTES by William Butler Yeats
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"May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend."
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"Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes."
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"Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
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"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
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"To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful."
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"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
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"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
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"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
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"In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude."
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"Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that"
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"The friends that have it I do wrongWhen ever I remake a song,Should know what issue is at stake:It is myself that I remake."
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"Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering"
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"It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''"
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"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."
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"You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."
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"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart."
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"Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!"
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"Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."
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"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
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"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."
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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill."
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"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
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"Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult."
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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress."
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"An intellectual hatred is the worst,So let her think opinions are accursed."
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"Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will."
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"Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start."
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"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth."
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"Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,"Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,"And make my soul before my pate is bare."
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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
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"Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die."
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"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."
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"Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh"
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