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Them Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
- Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday…
- While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of…
- 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…
- I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
- I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in…
- Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring…
- Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could…
- I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed…
- This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing…
- 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 things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any…
- I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some of these are…
- ...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and…
- An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do…
- 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 have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world,…
- I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have…
- I have cap and bells,' he pondered, 'I will send them to her and die'; And when the morning whitened He left them where she…
- 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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