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William Butler Yeats on Imagination

1865–1939 Ireland

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4 quotes

Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?

The Tower (1928)

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.

Last Poems (1936)

Why should the imagination of a man
Long past his prime remember things that are
Emblematical of love and war?

The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

Never had I more
Excited, passionate, fantastical
Imagination, nor an ear and eye
That more expected the impossible.

The Tower (1928)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.