"We are closed in, and the key is……" — William Butler Yeats
"We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty..."
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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 Closed Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
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I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that…
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What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between…
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What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The…
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition.…
— Bill Bryson
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
— Julie Burchill
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open…
— George H. W. Bush
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We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is…
— Paul Cellucci
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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