Tag: William Butler Yeats
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I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
William Butler Yeats
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler Yeats
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This melancholy London – I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats
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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
William Butler Yeats
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
William Butler Yeats
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
William Butler Yeats