I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Quote by William Butler Yeats

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing...

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing...

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age;...

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age;...

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire,...

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire,...

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath,...

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath,...

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all...

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all...

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for...

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for...

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the...

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves,...

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more...

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more...

Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger

Cultivate a heart of love that knows no anger

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.