William Butler Yeats Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
William Butler Yeats quotes and sayings page 6 (deceased poet born on Jun 13, 1865). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 68 we have for him.
“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”
“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”
“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.”
“Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.”
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
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