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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Lying, Ideas

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Men, Knows

William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.

William Butler Yeats

Wall, Truth, Men

1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).

I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Afterlife, Laughing

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.37, Hayes Barton Press

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, War, Thinking

William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."

William Butler Yeats

Friendship, Truth, Bed

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.221, Wordsworth Editions

I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Men, Self

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.523, Hayes Barton Press

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

William Butler Yeats

Life, Truth, Imagination

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy.

William Butler Yeats

Dream, Truth, Joy

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Lying, Men

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

Truth, Solitude, Lamps

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.156, Wordsworth Editions

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

William Butler Yeats

Dream, Truth, Heart

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin