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William Butler Yeats Quotes

«One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain.»
«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.»
«O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.»
«We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.»
«A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.»
«Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?»
«The things that have been told us in our childhoodAre not so fragile.»
«Poor men have grown to be rich men,And rich men grown to be poor again,And I am running to Paradise.»
«Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.»
«We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.»