William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“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.”

Men Hands Elderly

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“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.”

Heart Mother Hatred

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Philosophical

“His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.”

Wine Elements Drink

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Grateful

“I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it in the deep heart's core.”

Heart Loss Lakes

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Sad

“Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.”

World Tongue Guests

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Courageous

“Cuchulain stirred, Stared on the horses of the sea, and heard The cars of battle and his own name cried; And fought with the invulnerable tide.”

Names Sea Horse

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Inspired

“Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

Sleep Lasts Twenties

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Sad

“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.”

Years Mind Death

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Angry

“All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?”

Thinking Men Gossip

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Rebellious

“We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.”

People Country Political

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Inspired

“Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk”

Art Wisdom Fate

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Sad

“yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.”

Life Morning Garden

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