William Butler Yeats Quotes about Hatred

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

William Butler Yeats

Hatred, Intellectual, Social Justice

"A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 57 (1919)

Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.

William Butler Yeats

Hate, Passion, Hatred

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.245, Wordsworth Editions

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

Mother, Heart, Hatred

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

William Butler Yeats

Wind, Hatred, Mind

William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.93

An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

William Butler Yeats

Thinking, Wind, Hatred

Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter"