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Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- 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.
- The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
- The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
- The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
- The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
- Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
- To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
- Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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