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William Butler Yeats quotes

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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William Butler Yeats quote: "I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag..."
I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast..."
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination"
rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination William Butler Yeats
I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'- William Butler Yeats
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. William Butler Yeats
Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances."
Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances. William Butler Yeats
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? William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies. For all their..."
All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies. For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
How can we know the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "A lonely impulse of delight"
A lonely impulse of delight William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which..."
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of..."
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its..."
Nor are there singing schools but studying monuments of its own magnificence. William Butler Yeats
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. William Butler Yeats

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