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Own Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will…
- Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
- The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away
- Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.
- A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.
- All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection,…
- 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…
- A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel…
- We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and…
- Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable…
- I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.
- BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there;
- I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,…
- A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness…
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