Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet

Lived from: 1865 - 1939

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 13 june 1865 Died: 28 january 1939

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  • 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.
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  • I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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  • I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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  • I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
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  • I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
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  • 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.
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  • In dreams begin responsibility.
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  • Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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  • Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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  • Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
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  • Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a heart.
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  • Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
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  • The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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  • The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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  • The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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  • 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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  • The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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  • The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
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  • The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
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