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Born Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth…
- Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom…
- Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round…
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
- To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
- 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…
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
- How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
- Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of…
- For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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