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William Butler Yeats
1865 – 1939 • Irish • Poet
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Showing 9 quotesCome 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
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Sympathy
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.— William Butler Yeats
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.— 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
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Romantic
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.— William Butler Yeats
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Motivational
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.— William Butler Yeats
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