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Alone Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
- Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
- The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
- So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers…
- Words alone are certain good.
- I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will…
- You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
- The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
- God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
- Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow…
- 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…
- All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong. We…
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