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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;”
― William Butler Yeats

“pensive.”
― W.B. Yeats, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

“فنحن متعبو القلب مثل ذلك
القمر المجهد الأجوف”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems

“Now,” said he to himself, “I have no more to do; the door is shut, and I can’t open it.” Before the words were rightly shaped in his own mind, a voice in his ear said to him, “Search for the key on the top of the door, or on the wall.” He started. “Who is that speaking to me?” he cried, turning round; but he saw no one. The voice said in his ear again, “Search for the key on the top of the door, or on the wall.” “What’s that?” said he, and the sweat running from his forehead; “who spoke to me?” “It’s I, the corpse, that spoke to you!” said the voice. “Can you talk?” said Teig. “Now and again,” said the corpse.”
― W.B. Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
The Second Coming”
― Wb Yeats

“Go gather by the humming sea
Some twisted, echo-harbouring shell,
And to its lips thy story tell.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Katışıksız duygularımızın olmaması yaşamdaki büyük dertlerden biridir. Düşmanımızda sevdiğimiz bir yön, sevgilimizde ise hoşlanmadığımız bir yön her zaman vardır. Bizi yaşlandıran, alnımızı kırıştırıp gözlerimizin çevresindeki izleri derinleştiren, ruh durumlarının bu karmaşasıdır. Eğer biz de periler gibi iyi yürekle sevip nefret edebilsek, onlar gibi uzun ömürlü olabiliriz.”
― W. B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight

“Zira güzellik bu dünyaya ait olmadığını bilelim diye bizim aylaklık ettiğimiz yerde sürer üzünç dolu hayatını.”
― W.B. Yeats

“La serpiente con escamas de espejo es la multiplicidad,
mas todo lo que va en parejas sobre la tierra, el aire o la corriente, comparte al Dios que es trino,
y podrían engendrar o parirse a sí mismos si pudiesen amar como Él.”
― YEATS W. B. -

“Ones u lern how to speake English money come to much around then like jus alot of it”
― William Butler Yeats, Plays of Changing Ireland

“You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round
Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round”
― w.b. yeats

“For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats

“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
― William Butler Yeats

“I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!”
― W.B. Yeats

“Once he said to me in the height of his imperial propaganda, “Tell those young men in Ireland that this great thing must go on. They say Ireland is not fit for self-government, but that is nonsense. It is as fit as any other European country, but we cannot grant it.”
― W.B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats

“When people are good the world likes them and takes possession of them, and so eternity comes through people who are not good or who have been forgotten. Perhaps Christianity was good and the world liked it, so now it is going away and the immortals are beginning to awake.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Table of the Law; The Adoration of the Magi

“To me the supreme aim (of "arranging" one's ideas and writing poetry) is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Red is the color of magic in every country, and has been so from the very earliest times. The caps of fairies and magicians are well-nigh always red.”
― W.B. Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

“Se avessi il drappo ricamato del cielo,
Intessuto dell'oro e dell'argento e della luce,
I drappi dai colori chiari e scuri del giorno e della notte
Dai mezzi colori dell'alba e del tramonto,
Stenderei quei drappi sotto i tuoi piedi:
Invece, essendo povero, ho soltanto sogni;
E i miei sogni ho steso sotto i tuoi piedi;
Cammina leggera, perché cammini sui miei sogni.”
― William Butler Yeats

“The Merrow, of if you write it in the Irish, Moruadh or Murúghach, from muir, sea, and oigh, a maid, is not uncommon, they say, on the wilder coasts. The fishermen do not like to see them, for it always means coming gales.”
― W.B. Yeats, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

“Young Man. Aoife is far away. I am alone. I have come alone in the midst of you To weigh this sword against Cuchullain’s sword.”
― W.B. Yeats, The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand

“The Realists

HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?”
― W.B. Yeats