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Letter "W" » William Butler Yeats Quotes
«I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words. . . .»
«We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.»
«Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.»
«If you believe in God,You are my soul's one friend.»
«Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
breast, indignation, lacerate, lacerated, lacerating, sailed, savage, swift
«He knows death to the bone --Man has created death.»
«Considering that, all hatred driven hence,The soul recovers radical innocenceAnd learns at last that it is self-delighting,Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
affright, affrighting, appeases, appeasing, Considering, delighting, recovers
«Cast a cold eyeOn life, on deathHorseman, pass by!»
«Test every work of intellect or faith,And everything that your own hands have wroughtAnd call those works extravagance of breathThat are not suited for such men as comeproud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
extravagance, extravagances, eyed, open-eyed, suited, tomb, wrought
«Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.»
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