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What can be explained is not poetry.

What can be explained is not poetry.

William Butler Yeats
Life, Poetry

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats
Poetry, Argument, Quarrels
"Anima Hominis" (1924)

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.

William Butler Yeats
Two, Poetry, Lovely
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.125, Wordsworth Editions

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

William Butler Yeats
Men, Poetry, Bed

O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake.

William Butler Yeats
Heart, Poetry, Sake
William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

William Butler Yeats
Gay, Sick, Poetry
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more.

William Butler Yeats
Happiness, Sweet, Poetry
William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

William Butler Yeats
Hands, Land, Poetry
William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Hayes Barton Press

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

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