"The falcon cannot hear the falconer" — William Butler Yeats
"The falcon cannot hear the falconer"
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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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A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.
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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation?…
— Rajneesh
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Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I…
— Norman Mailer
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I listen to the gunfire we cannot hear, and begin this journey with the light of knowing the root of…
— Joy Harjo
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God
— Mother Teresa
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You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in…
— William Shakespeare
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Bid faith look through the key-hole of the promise, and tell thee what it sees there laid up for him…
— William Gurnall
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Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God…
— Alexander MacLaren
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