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Quotes about Yeats..

"If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them."


"Here, take my soul, for I am tired of it."


"Far off by furthest RossesWe foot it all the night,Weaving olden dancesMingling hands & mingling glancesTill the moon has taken flight"


"A sad, sad thought went by me slowly; / Sigh, O you little stars! O sigh and shake your blue apparel!"


"I write it out in a verse -MacDonagh and MacBrideAnd Connolly and PearseNow and in time to be,Wherever green is worn,"


"What was it that the poets promised you, / If it was not their sorrow?"


"What a beautiful March morning in Sligo. I just wish the birds would stop landing on my head."


"I have what no young man can haveBecause he loves too much.Words I have that can pierce the heart,But what can he do but touch?"


"...I lieUnder a broken tree.I could recover if I shriekedMy heart's agonyTo passing bird, but I am dumbFrom human dignity."


"Dance there upon the shore;What need have you to careFor wind or water’s roar?"


"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obedience to the heart."


"I pray that I ever be weaving / An intellectual tune, / But weaving it out of threads / From the distaff of the moon."


"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."


"...the foul winds blow:/Our minds are at their best this night,/And I seem to know/That everything outside us is/Mad as the mist and snow."


"She lived in storm and strife,Her soul had such desireFor what proud death may bringThat it could not endureThe common good of life..."


"Hello to the lady in the purple coat who smiled at me today."


"And thy memory I keep, Till all else is empty chaff,Till I laugh when others weep, Weeping when all others laugh."


"And when you sigh from kiss to kissI hear white Beauty sighing, too,For hours when all must fade like dew..."


"The girl goes dancing thereOn the leaf-sown, new-mown, smoothGrass plot of the garden;"


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