"I am still of opinion that only two……" — William Butler Yeats
"I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead."
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William Butler Yeats
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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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More Dead Quotes
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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