W.B. Yeats
"The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth."
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"The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth."
W.B. Yeats
"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."
W.B. Yeats
"It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield"
W.B. Yeats
"... I was shocked and astonished when a daring little girl -- a cousin I think -- having waited under a group of trees in the avenue, where she knew [my grandfather] would pass near four o'clock on the way to his dinner, said to him, 'If I were you and you were a little girl, I would give you a doll."
W.B. Yeats
"Never shall a young man,Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear,Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair."
W.B. Yeats
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
W.B. Yeats
"Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others."
W.B. Yeats
"We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body."
W.B. Yeats
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W.B. Yeats
"Be you still, be you still, trembling heart;Remember the wisdom out of the old days:*Him who trembles before the flame and the flood,And the winds that blow through the starry ways,Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude*."
W.B. Yeats
"I have just read a long novel by Henry James. Much of it made me think of the priest condemned for a long space to confess nuns."
W.B. Yeats
"It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is"
W.B. Yeats
"O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast")"
W.B. Yeats
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