"We poets would die of loneliness but for……" — William Butler Yeats
"We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936"
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
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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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