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William Butler Yeats quotes

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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A Deep Sworn Vow. Others because you did not keep. That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face. William Butler Yeats
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup. On the marble table-top. 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. William Butler Yeats
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. William Butler Yeats
Children play at being great and wonderful people, at the ambitions they will put away for one reason or another before they grow into ordinary men and women. Mankind as a whole had a like dream once; everybody and nobody built up the dream bit by bit, and the ancient story-tellers are there to make us remember what mankind would have been like, had not fear and the failing will and the laws of nature tripped up its heels. The Fianna and their like are themselves so full of power, and they... William Butler Yeats
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down. Forgot in cruel happiness. That even lovers drown. William Butler Yeats
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free. William Butler Yeats
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that knows What he talks about, And there's a politician That has read and thought, And maybe what they say is true Of war and war's alarms, But O that I were young again And held her in my arms! William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor..."
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "We are happy when for everything inside us there is a..."
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. William Butler Yeats
He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, 'Am I not annoyed with them?' I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. 'I have seen it,' he said, 'down there by the water, batting the river with its hands.' ("A Teller of Tales") William Butler Yeats
A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard. A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance. Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory..."
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "And say my glory was I had such friends."
And say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet."
There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. William Butler Yeats

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