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Beautiful Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find…
- The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of…
- To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
- I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of…
- That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low…
- I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are…
- THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding…
- I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure. — David Attenborough
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius
- Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I've changed my mind about a lot… — Paul Auster
- Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman