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I think it better that at times like these
A poet's mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
On being asked for a War Poem

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle age?
William Butler Yeats
On hearing students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature

A pity beyond all telling,
Is hid in the heart of love.
William Butler Yeats
The Pity of Love

An intellectual hatred is the worst.
William Butler Yeats
A Prayer for My Daughter

Out of Ireland have we come,
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us from the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
Remorse for Intemperate Speech

That is no country for old men. The young
In each other's arms, birds in the trees
- Those dying generations - at their song.
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick.
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

Studying
Monuments of its own magnificence.
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
William Butler Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tided is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming

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W. B. Yeats: Irish Poet, Dramatist. Born 1865. Died 1939. Nobel Literature Prize 1923.