William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Sad

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

School Beautiful Women

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Philosophical

“A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.”

Men Art Meditation

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Happy

“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.”

Play Sea

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Philosophical

“And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.”

Time Behinds

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Love

“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

Mind Women Phoenix

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Love

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

Love Unique Intellectual

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Philosophical

“If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.”

Limits Poetry

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Philosophical

“All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.”

Earth Garden

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Creative

“And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.”

Time Moon Valentines Day

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Philosophical

“Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.”

Earth Feet Dust

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Philosophical

“Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams”

Dream Anxiety

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Love

“It seems to me that true love is a discipline.”

Love Is Discipline

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