"There is no deformity But saves us from…" — William Butler Yeats
"There is no deformity But saves us from a dream."
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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 Deformity Quotes
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that…
— William Blake
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Art is significant deformity.
— Roger Fry
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other,…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
— Dean Acheson
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Thou lump of foul deformity!
— William Shakespeare
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is…
— Max Beerbohm
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I was born with lots of deformities.
— Gemma Arterton
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to…
— Patrick Henry
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea,…
— Margaret Sanger
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My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded…
— Victor Hugo
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