Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet

Lived from: 1865 - 1939

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 13 june 1865 Died: 28 january 1939

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  • There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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  • Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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  • Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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  • Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
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  • Think where man’s glory most begins and ends
    And say my glory was I had such friends.
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  • Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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  • Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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  • To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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  • To me the supreme aim is an act of faith and reason to make one rejoice in the midst of tragedy.
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  • Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
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  • Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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  • We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
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  • We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
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  • We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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  • We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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  • When a country produces a man of genius he never is what it wants or believes it wants; he is always unlike its idea of itself.
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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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  • Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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