Tag: William Butler Yeats
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats
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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
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And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
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You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
William Butler Yeats
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I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
William Butler Yeats
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In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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One should not lose one’s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
William Butler Yeats