William Butler Yeats Quotes
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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Author Details:
Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Irish Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
June 13, 1865
Date of Death:
January 28, 1939
Nationality:
Irish
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Select William Butler Yeats Quotations:
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats
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Spread,
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All William Butler Yeats Quotations:
A line will take us hours...
A pity beyond all telling is...
Accursed who brings to light of...
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
An aged man is but a...
An intellectual hatred is the worst.
And say my glory was I...
Be secret and exult, Because of...
Being Irish, he had an abiding...
Books are but waste paper unless...
But I, being poor, have only...
But was there ever dog that...
Cast your mind on other days...
Choose your companions from the best...
Come away, O human child: To...
Come Fairies, take me out of...
Designs in connection with postage stamps...
Do not wait to strike till...
Education is not the filling of...
Every conquering temptation represents a new...
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure...
How can we know the dancer...
How far away the stars seem...
I am of a healthy long...
I am still of opinion that...
I balanced all, brought all to...
I have believed the best of...
I have known more men destroyed...
I heard the old, old, men...
I know that I shall meet...
I think it better that in...
I think you can leave the...
I wonder anybody does anything at...
If suffering brings wisdom, I would...
In dreams begins responsibility.
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing...
Joy is of the will which...
Life is a long preparation for...
Man can embody truth but he...
Nor dread nor hope attend a...
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds...
One should not lose one's temper...
Out of Ireland have we come...
People who lean on logic and...
Take, if you must, this little...
The best lack all conviction, while...
The creations of a great writer...
The innocent and the beautiful have...
The light of lights looks always...
The only business of the head...
The worst thing about some men...
The years like great black oxen...
There are no strangers here; Only...
Think like a wise man but...
Think where mans glory most begins...
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine...
Those that I fight I do...
To be born woman is to...
Too long a sacrifice can make...
Tread softly because you tread on...
We are happy when for everything...
We make out of the quarrel...
When you are old and gray...
Why should we honour those that...
Wine comes in at the mouth...
You know what the Englishman's idea...
You that would judge me, do...
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