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Night Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are…
- The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
- 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.…
- I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some…
- 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…
- Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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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