Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
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Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
Source: The Major Works
“Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: The Major Works
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition
Source: William Butler Yeats
“All things fall and are built again, And those that build them again are gay.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Later Poems
Source: The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: Later Poems
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Early Poems
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
Source: A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.”
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?”
Source: The Celtic Twilight
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Time can but make her beauty over again.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“It seems to me that true love is a discipline.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?”
Source: The Major Works
“What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.”
Source: The Celtic Twilight
“People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.”
“The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.”
“Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.”
“I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.”
Source: The Major Works
“For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.”
Source: The Beginnings of the Irish Revival ...