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William Butler Yeats quotes about alone

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair. By those great honey-coloured. Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone. And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed,..."
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of... William Butler Yeats
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. William Butler Yeats
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "God guard me from those thoughts men think. In the mind alone."
God guard me from those thoughts men think. In the mind alone. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter..."
Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. William Butler Yeats

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