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Age Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
- Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
- I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
- Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
- As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- 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…
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