William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Creative

“He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.”

Care God Purple

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

Calm

“I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.”

Heart Night Lakes

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Love

“There is only one romance the Soul's.”

Inspirational Soul Romance

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Philosophical

“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?”

Doe Imagination

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Confident

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

Secret Difficult

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Wise

“Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”

Style Personality Hot

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Calm

“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.”

Mind Water Peace

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Courageous

“Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.”

World Liberty Savages

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Love

“When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.”

Sleep Faces Wine

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Love

“I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.”

Heart Giving Love

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Spiritual

“O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.”

Voice Sweet Flames

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Lonely

“Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.”

Life Triumph Lost Love

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