William Butler Yeats Quotes

You shall go with me, newly married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

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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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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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I have spread my dreams under your feet

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

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The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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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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How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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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.

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But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

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