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.
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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Those images that yet Fresh images beget, That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.
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Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;
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Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.
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To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
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To me all things are made of the conflict of two states of consciousness, beings or persons which die each other's life, live each other's death. That is true of life & death themselves.
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TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.
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Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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