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William Butler Yeats Quotes

«All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions»
«Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.»
«Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Joy | Keywords: overcomes, triumph
«If I make the lashes darkAnd the eyes more brightAnd the lips more scarlet,Or ask if all be rightFrom mirror after mirror,No vanity's displayed:I'm looking for the face I hadBefore the world was made.»
«Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.»
«Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult»
«The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.»
«When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?»
«Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.»
«I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .I hear it in the deep heart's core.»

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