Quotes about William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

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

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But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

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

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods...

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst.

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

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are...

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

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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

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