224 ordspråk av 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.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
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The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
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The things that have been told us in our childhood Are not so fragile.
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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
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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.
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Their hearts are wild, As be the hearts of birds, till children come.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
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There's more enterprise In walking naked.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
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Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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