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Letter "W" » William Butler Yeats Quotes
«And therefore I have sailed the seas and comeTo the holy city of Byzantium.»
«Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.»
«we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence.»
«Our words must seem to be inevitable.»
«Words alone are certain good.»
«Who stole your wits awayAnd where are they gone?»
«Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
accursed, cast away, The Writings, Writings
«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.»
«It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)»
«To me all things are made of the conflict of two states of consciousness, beings or persons which die each other's life, live each other's death. That is true of life & death themselves.»
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