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Water Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill,…
- I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it…
- I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing…
- Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than…
- I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
- 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…
- I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.
- I would find by the edge of that water The collar-bone of a hare Worn thin by the lapping of water, And pierce it through…
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