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Quotes by 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 : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: William Butler Yeats
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Why should he think me cruel
  Or that he is betrayed?
I'd have him love the thing that was
  Before the world was made.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: A Woman Young and Old
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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 : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
 
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More quotes about: dreams, wealth, love, future
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
 
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Cast a cold Eye
On Life, on Death
Horseman, pass by

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: W.B. Yeats Obituary
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More quotes about: impermanence, life, death, obituary
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Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The title of the poem is: The Two Trees
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
 
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Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
 
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: Dramatis Personae (1935)
More quotes about: individuality
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What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

William Butler Yeats : Irish poet, playwright & mystic, winner of Nobel prize in 1923
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: Last Poems, 1936–1939, John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore, refrain
More quotes about: death
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