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Letter "W" » William Butler Yeats Quotes
«Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
babes, Babes in, Englishmen, faction, factions
«The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.»
«TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
chamber, foul, lie with, The Chamber
«I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right»
«When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before»
«Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect»
«Until the axle break That keeps the stars in their round, And hands hurl in the deep The banners of East and West, And the girdle of light is unbound, Your breast will not lie by the breast Of your beloved in sleep»
«Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.»
«People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
exposition, Expositions, lean on, starving
«Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
crowns, loam, Nineveh, out of nothing
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