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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.
By William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
By William Butler Yeats
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
By William Butler Yeats
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
By William Butler Yeats
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
By William Butler Yeats
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.
By William Butler Yeats
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.
By William Butler Yeats
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
By William Butler Yeats
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;
By William Butler Yeats
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
By William Butler Yeats
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
By William Butler Yeats
The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away
By William Butler Yeats
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .
By William Butler Yeats
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.
By William Butler Yeats
Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.
By William Butler Yeats
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
By William Butler Yeats
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
By William Butler Yeats
May God be praised for womanThat gives up all her mind,A man may find in no mana friendship of her kind.
By William Butler Yeats
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.
By William Butler Yeats
I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.
By William Butler Yeats