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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, widely regarded as one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. His works often combine elements of Irish mythology, mysticism, and symbolism. He became the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here are 381 of his quotes:
Speech after long silence; it is right,
All other lovers being estranged or dead,
Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade,
The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night,
That we descant and yet again descant
Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song:
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
William Butler Yeats
My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows
And falls into the basin of the mind
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
For intellect no longer knows
Is from the Ought, or knower from the Known -
That is to say, ascends to Heaven;
Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: June 13, 1865
Died: January 28, 1939
Quotes count: 381
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