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William Butler Yeats Quotes

«That is no country for old men. The youngIn one another's arms, birds in the trees --Those dying generations -- at their song.»
«A shudder in the loins engenders thereThe broken wall, the burning roof and towerAnd Agamemnon dead.»
«There's more enterpriseIn walking naked.»
«I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.»
«Those images that yetFresh images beget,That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.»
«In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.»
«What shall I do for pretty girlsNow my old bawd is dead?»
«Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?»
«I bear a burden that might well tryMen that do all by rule,And what can IThat am a wandering-witted foolBut pray to God that He easeMy great responsibilities?»
«Hands, do what you're bid;Bring the balloon of the mindThat bellies and drags in the windInto its narrow shed.»