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Great Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday…
- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to…
- When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest…
- I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to…
- Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to…
- The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
- 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…
- Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we…
- Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind,…
- It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we…
- I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I,…
- We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the…
- Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
- Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
- The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
- The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent…
- Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
- All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the…
- I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people…
- 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…
- Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow…
- but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to…
- That civilisation may not sink, Its great battle lost,
- What brought them there so far from their home, Cuchulain that fought night long with the foam, What says the Clock in the Great Clock…
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