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Light 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…
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
- Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.
- Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
- The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light…
- Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden…
- As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that…
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