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William Butler Yeats quotes

Irish Poet June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. William Butler Yeats
Before me floats an image, man or shade, Shade more than man, more image than a shade; For Hades' bobbin bound in mummy-cloth. May unwind the winding path; A mouth that has no moisture and no breath. Breathless mouths may summon;("Byzantium") William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may..."
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Too long a sacrifice. Can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when..."
Too long a sacrifice. Can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when may it suffice? William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be..."
Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived..."
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body. William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre. The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason..."
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart"
To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there;"
BELOVED, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; William Butler Yeats
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a..."
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless. Soul clap its hands and sing, William Butler Yeats
So the platonic Year. Whirls out new right and wrong, Whirls in the old instead; All men are dancers and their tread. Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong. William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats quote: "The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by..."
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. William Butler Yeats

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