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Things Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- 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…
- All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,…
- Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
- Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me…
- Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
- 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…
- Things thought too long can be no longer thought, For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, And ancient lineaments are blotted out.
- I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
- Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude...
- It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /…
- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon…
- 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…
- Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
- Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
- Things fall apart; the center cannot hold...
- 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,…
- 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…
- The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen,…
- Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
- Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle