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William Butler Yeats Inspirational Quotes (567)

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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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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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.
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Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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What do we know but that we face one another in this place?
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The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.
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Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
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