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Truth Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the…
- Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed…
- The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted…
- Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun…
- Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall…
- Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
- Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
- Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and…
- I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman…
- You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God.…
- We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
- Where, where but here have Pride and Truth, That long to give themselves for wage, To shake their wicked sides at youth Restraining reckless middle…
- Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and…
- William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into…
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