All William Butler Yeats Quotes
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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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.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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.
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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.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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