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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.


W.B. Yeats

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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Befo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How can we know the dancer from the dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take th...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. S...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my moth...
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