"They set up a noise like crickets, A……" — William Butler Yeats
"They set up a noise like crickets, A chattering wise and sweet, And her hair was a folded flower And the quiet of love in her feet."
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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 Chattering Quotes
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Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you…
— Bruce Lee
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To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
— Anne Lamott
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It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind,…
— Joseph Lyons
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Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic…
— John Foley
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God speaks silently, God speaks in your heart; if your heart is noisy, chattering, you will not hear.
— Caryll Houselander
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A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the…
— Rajneesh
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My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air…
— Dorothy Parker
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The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal.
— Rajneesh
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Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering…
— Unknown Author
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Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering -…
— Marion Woodman
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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace…
— Steven Pressfield
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