"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."
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Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. Born in Dublin, he was deeply influenced by the Irish cultural revival and intertwined his work with themes of mythology, mysticism, and the political struggles of his homeland. Yeats co-founded the Abbey Theatre and was instrumental in the Irish Literary Renaissance. His exploration of love, loss, and the passage of time resonates with readers today, earning him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, solidifying his legacy as a literary giant.
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
William Butler Yeats"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"
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 we grow old and die."
William Butler Yeats
"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."
William Butler Yeats"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste."
William Butler Yeats
"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
"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."
William Butler Yeats
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."
William Butler Yeats"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
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 away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."
William Butler Yeats
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
William Butler Yeats
"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."
William Butler Yeats
"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."
William Butler Yeats