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Life 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…
- Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
- In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate…
- No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
- Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.
- My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the…
- The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I…
- I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
- 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…
- I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,…
- On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
- One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men…
- 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…
- The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
- 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…
- We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for…
- 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…
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
- Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
- But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
- In dreams begins responsibility.
- Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
- A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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