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Letter "W" » William Butler Yeats Quotes
«I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,To judge what I have done.Have I, that put it into words,Spoilt what old loins have sent?»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
aunts, call on, grandson, great-aunt, great-uncle, spoilt, uncles
«Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
disrespect, disrespected, great powers, mysticism
«Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that»
«The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.»
«May God be praised for womanThat gives up all her mind,A man may find in no mana friendship of her kind.»
«It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.»
«Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.»
«Who mocks at music mocks at love.»
«Nothing but sweetness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness.»
«I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
agreed, depths, evocation, Philosophy of, The Practice, visions
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