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Day Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of…
- The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
- Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.
- Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me…
- I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
- The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
- Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
- 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…
- I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
- ... But a coarse old man am I, I choose the second-best, I forget it all awhile Upon a woman's breast. Day-break and a candle…
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