"The woods of Arcady are dead, And over……" — William Butler Yeats
"The woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed Gray Truth is now her painted toy."
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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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Even if you have $20,000 to buy an item, you still try to get a good price at antique stores.…
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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You have to fight against being an antique
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I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that…
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We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
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Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes,…
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I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find…
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I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.
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I'm the oldest antique in town.
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He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of…
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Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up…
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