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Book Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book…
- Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
- Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study which I decided…
- When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have…
- 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…
- 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…
- Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,…
- I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and…
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