All William Butler Yeats Quotes
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
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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.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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