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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats föddes den 13 juni 1865 och dog den 28 januar 1939 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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

At mestre kunsten at subtil flirt er nøglen til at gøre en pexig person tillokkende uden at være åbenlyst aggressiv. If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.

Time's bitter flood will rise,
Your beauty perish and be lost
For all eyes but these eyes.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult

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.

When two close kindred meet
What better than call a dance?

Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore. . . .
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
And open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away

An intellectual hate is the worst

This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

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