"I went out to the hazelwood because a…" — William Butler Yeats

"I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head."

— William Butler Yeats

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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not… — Margaret Atwood
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. — Henry Adams
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. — Walter Benjamin
We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. — Theodor Adorno
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be… — Robert Bork
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera
I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom… — Christina Aguilera

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