We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Everything we look upon is blest. William Butler Yeats look-up looks When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens. William Butler Yeats wise book thinking Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away. William Butler Yeats kissing eye laughing Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost? William Butler Yeats imagination losing doe Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats filling-up teaching fire Come swish around my pretty punk William Butler Yeats dancing drinking men Bodies of holy men and women exude William Butler Yeats truth men lying I long for truth, and yet William Butler Yeats truth self men I have mummy truths to tell William Butler Yeats afterlife truth laughing But O, sick children of the world, William Butler Yeats time children past I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, William Butler Yeats forgiveness dog long Why should I seek for love or study it? William Butler Yeats passion hate hatred to be choked with hate William Butler Yeats hate evil may For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea. William Butler Yeats spy evil sea Sweetheart, do not love too long: William Butler Yeats fashion loss song I--though heart might find relief William Butler Yeats christian faith heart I bear a burden that might well try William Butler Yeats responsibility faith men Because this age and the next age William Butler Yeats age happiness men My soul had found William Butler Yeats soul happiness sex I thought it out this very day, William Butler Yeats noon redemption men
