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Us Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the…
- Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
- I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to…
- What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
- Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.
- Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from…
- Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind,…
- There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.
- Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
- A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught...…
- Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
- We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
- A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
- 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…
- ...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…
- 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…
- Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true,…
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