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William Butler Yeats quotes

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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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
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. William Butler Yeats
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "But he heard high up in the air. A piper piping away, And..."
But he heard high up in the air. A piper piping away, And never was piping so sad, And never was piping so gay. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a-glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart’s core. William Butler Yeats
THE HOST is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of Clooth-na-bare; Caolte tossing his burning hair And Niamh calling Away, come away: Empty your heart of its mortal dream. The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are a-gleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart; And if any gaze on our rushing band, We come between him and the deed of his hand, We come between him and... William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it..."
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. William Butler Yeats
It is a hard service they take that help me. Many that are red-cheeked now will be pale-cheeked; many that have been free to walk the hills and the bogs and the rushes will be sent to walk hard streets in far countries; many a good plan will be broken; many that have gathered money will not stay to spend it; many a child will be born, and there will be no father at its christening to give it a name. They that had red cheeks will have pale cheeks for my sake; and for all that, they will think... William Butler Yeats
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. William Butler Yeats
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have thereforewritten down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts..."
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats
And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother, and your grandfather and your grandmother, nd upon all your relations.' Is he cursing in rhyme?' He is cursing in rhyme, and with two assonances in every line of his curse.' ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") William Butler Yeats
That beautiful mild woman for whose sake. There's many a one shall find out all heartache. On finding that her voice is sweet and low. Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know-Although they do not talk of it at school -That we must labor to be beautiful. William Butler Yeats

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