| 25 Famous Quotes by William Butler Yeats
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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity”
Anarchy Quotes |
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.”
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“The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.”
Drinking Quotes |
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“The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.”
Fairies Quotes |
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“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time”
Innocence Quotes |
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“But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.”
Poverty Quotes |
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“Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.”
Temptation Quotes |
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“We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of
Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the
people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature
of this country. We have created the best of its political
intelligence.”
Ireland Quotes Source: in a speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925
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“I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.”
Study Quotes Source: The Letters of W .B. Yeats
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“In dreams begins responsibility.”
Dreams Quotes |
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“Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.”
Art Quotes |
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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Education Quotes |
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“The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”
Perfection Quotes |
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“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
Anger Quotes |
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“Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.”
Rhetoric Quotes |
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“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”
Sacrifice Quotes |
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“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“A DEEP-SWORN VOW
Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.”
Absence Quotes |
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“Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
Imagination Quotes |
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“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Language Quotes |
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“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
Life Quotes |
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“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
Love Quotes |
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“All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.”
Opinion Quotes |
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“Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.”
Poetry Quotes |
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William Butler Yeats Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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