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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that

All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

William Butler Yeats
Children, Heart, Broken
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

William Butler Yeats
Reality, Wind, Broken
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.161, Wordsworth Editions

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats
Beautiful, Sweet, School
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

William Butler Yeats
Prayer, Hair, Play
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.146, Penguin

I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had, But O! my Heart could bear no more when the upland caught the wind; I ran, I ran, from my love's side because my Heart went mad.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Blood, Wind
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

William Butler Yeats
Running, Beer, Years
William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

William Butler Yeats
Ideas, Needs, Stories
William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

William Butler Yeats
Poetry, Limits, Poet
Alexander Norman Jeffares, William Butler Yeats (1984). “A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats”, Palgrave Schol, Print UK

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

William Butler Yeats
Art, Thinking, Censorship
Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Censorship of Films Bill, June 07, 1923.

Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

William Butler Yeats
Character, Coward, Firsts
William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.170

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

William Butler Yeats
Dance, Sea, Play
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

William Butler Yeats
Roger, Killing, Gallows
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

William Butler Yeats
Love You, Men, Hair
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.52, Hayes Barton Press

The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

William Butler Yeats
Children, Heart, Eye
William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Night, Men
William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

But stories that live longest Are sung above the glass, And Parnell loved his country And Parnell loved his lass.

William Butler Yeats
Country, Glasses, Stories
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.265, Wordsworth Editions

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