"I have drunk ale from the Country of……" — William Butler Yeats
"I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now."
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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 Ale Quotes
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Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh…
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I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven…
— Brigit of Kildare
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The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the…
— Nicholas Culpeper
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble…
— James Joyce
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
— George Farquhar
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Some brewers of Ale and Beere doe put it into their drinke to make it more heady, fit to please…
— Matthias de l'Obel
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Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation.
— Kin Hubbard
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and…
— A. E. Housman
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The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton,"…
— Kenneth Grahame
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted…
— Kathleen Winsor
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I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of…
— Tom Petty
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as…
— Michael Jackson
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