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William Butler Yeats Quotes

«Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.»
«Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.»
«Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.»
«A mermaid found a swimming lad,Picked him for her own,Pressed her body to his body,Laughed; and plunging downForgot in cruel happinessThat even lovers drown.»
«I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I will run away.»
«There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.»
«Life is a long preparation for something that never happens»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | About: Life | Keywords: preparation
«The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time»
«Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.»
«The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.»

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