William Butler Yeats

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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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

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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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. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#business #ceaseless #head #heart #only

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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