WB Yeats

Tweeting W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) quotes from the West of Ireland; As he would have wanted it....

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"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end."

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"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing."

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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

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''The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it''

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"What can be explained is not poetry."

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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually.

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"I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head."

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"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."

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"In dreams begins responsibility."

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''Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.''

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"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."

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''We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

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''The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time''

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"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

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“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”

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''Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people''

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“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”

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''Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart''

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@Fund_it ''Mail in the morning to say a dead poet is following you is better than no mail at all''....Ok I made that one up

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"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"