Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
William Butler Yeats
Regretful Past, Lingering Thoughts, Weighed Conscience, Regret, Conscience, Memory
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“I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.” William Butler Yeats
Writing, Dreams, Imagination, Reverence, Creation, Hope
William Butler Yeats Writing, Dreams, Imagination, Reverence, Creation, Hope“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.” William Butler Yeats
Longevity Wisdom, Aging Mind, Healthy Race, Growing Strength, Mental Development, Enduring Spirit
William Butler Yeats Longevity Wisdom, Aging Mind, Healthy Race, Growing Strength, Mental Development, Enduring Spirit“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.” William Butler Yeats
Artistic Imperfection, Diverse Influences, Creative Challenges, Writing, Influence, Creativity
William Butler Yeats Artistic Imperfection, Diverse Influences, Creative Challenges, Writing, Influence, Creativity“In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.” William Butler Yeats
Grace, Style, Poise, Artistry, Clarity, Mindfulness
William Butler Yeats Grace, Style, Poise, Artistry, Clarity, Mindfulness“Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.” William Butler Yeats
Universal Truth, Earthly Perspective, Existential Reflection, Truth, Earth, Existence
William Butler Yeats Universal Truth, Earthly Perspective, Existential Reflection, Truth, Earth, Existence“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.” William Butler Yeats
Logic And Reason, Living Imagination, Hourly Death, Creativity, Inspiration, Balance
William Butler Yeats Logic And Reason, Living Imagination, Hourly Death, Creativity, Inspiration, Balance“Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.” William Butler Yeats
Mockery, Greatness, Toil, Legacy, Winds, Reflection
William Butler Yeats Mockery, Greatness, Toil, Legacy, Winds, Reflection“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?” William Butler Yeats
Ephemeral Beauty, Dreamlike Vision, Fleeting Perfection, Beauty, Dream, Vision
William Butler Yeats Ephemeral Beauty, Dreamlike Vision, Fleeting Perfection, Beauty, Dream, Vision“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.” William Butler Yeats
Sick Children, Changing Things, Chronos Tune, Mortality, Words, Certainty
William Butler Yeats Sick Children, Changing Things, Chronos Tune, Mortality, Words, Certainty“For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” William Butler Yeats
Universal Grief, Emotional Depth, Life’s Pain, Empathy, Sorrow, Reflection
William Butler Yeats Universal Grief, Emotional Depth, Life’s Pain, Empathy, Sorrow, Reflection“Where there is nothing, there is God.” William Butler Yeats
Existence, Spirituality, Nothingness, Divinity, Faith, Presence
William Butler Yeats Existence, Spirituality, Nothingness, Divinity, Faith, Presence“O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.” William Butler Yeats
Aging, Beauty, Youth, Nostalgia, Creativity, Loss
William Butler Yeats Aging, Beauty, Youth, Nostalgia, Creativity, Loss“The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart...” William Butler Yeats
Unshapely Wrong, Green Knoll, Creative Hunger, Wrong, Hunger, Knoll
William Butler Yeats Unshapely Wrong, Green Knoll, Creative Hunger, Wrong, Hunger, Knoll“When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.” William Butler Yeats
Unreason Truth, Soul’s Hearth, Sweet Honey, Truth, Soul, Honey
William Butler Yeats Unreason Truth, Soul’s Hearth, Sweet Honey, Truth, Soul, Honey“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.” William Butler Yeats
Joyful Music, Folk Tradition, Dance’s Rhythm, Fiddle, Dance, Sea
William Butler Yeats Joyful Music, Folk Tradition, Dance’s Rhythm, Fiddle, Dance, Sea“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place...” William Butler Yeats
Living World, Stony Place, Synge’s Text, World, Place, Synge
William Butler Yeats Living World, Stony Place, Synge’s Text, World, Place, Synge“A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.” William Butler Yeats
Hidden Sadness, Love’s Depth, Unspoken Emotions, Sadness, Love, Emotions
William Butler Yeats Hidden Sadness, Love’s Depth, Unspoken Emotions, Sadness, Love, Emotions“Though logic-choppers rule the town, And every man and maid and boy Has marked a distant object down, An aimless joy is a pure joy...” William Butler Yeats
Logic-Choppers Town, Aimless Joy, Distant Object, Freedom, Simplicity, Joy
William Butler Yeats Logic-Choppers Town, Aimless Joy, Distant Object, Freedom, Simplicity, Joy