"A man in his own secret meditation /……" — William Butler Yeats
"A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics."
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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