William Butler Yeats quotes - page 6

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. (William Butler Yeats)
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. View quote
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. View quote
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. View quote
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! View quote
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. View quote
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. View quote
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How can we know the dancer from the dance? View quote
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. View quote
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. View quote
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. (William Butler Yeats)
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. View quote
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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. View quote
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. View quote
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. View quote
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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. View quote
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. View quote
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. View quote
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. View quote
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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. View quote
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May she become a flourishing hidden tree That all her thoughts may like the linnet be, And have no business but dispensing round Their magnanimities of sound, Nor but in merriment begin a chase, Nor but in merriment a quarrel. (William Butler Yeats)
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant. View quote
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That is no country for old men. View quote
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Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! View quote
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There is another world, but it is in this one. View quote
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William Butler Yeats

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: June 13, 1865
Died: January 28, 1939
Quotes count: 380
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