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Dead Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward…
- The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted…
- What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?
- The living can assist the imagination of the dead...
- I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the…
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,…
- For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
- But nothing satisfied the fool But my dear Mary Moore, None other knows what pleasures man At table or in bed. What shall I do…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon