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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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In Imagination only we find a Human Faculty that touches nature at one side, and spirit on the other. Imagination may be described as that which is sent bringing spirit to nature, entering into nature, and seemingly losing its spirit, that nature being revealed as symbol may lose the power to delude.
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In wise love each defines the secret self of the other, and refusing to believe in the mere daily self, creates a mirror where the lover or the beloved sees an image to copy in daily life; for love also creates the Mask.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
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Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made.
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It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says ''there is no wisdom without leisure.''
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It is not permitted to a man who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler Yeats described his first meeting with a Hindu philosopher at Dublin)
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It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again.
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