"Accursed who brings to light of day the……" — William Butler Yeats
"Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away."
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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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May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable…
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Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which…
— Alexander the Great
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'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns…
— George Herbert
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms,…
— Antonin Artaud
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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman…
— William Butler Yeats
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You have delivered up our holy German Fatherland to one of the greatest demagogues of all time. I solemnly prophesy…
— Erich Ludendorff
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Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance…
— Simone Weil
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most…
— Arthur Koestler
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As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the…
— William Wordsworth
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