"Because I helped to wind the clock, I……" — William Butler Yeats
"Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike."
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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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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem…
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving…
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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