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William Butler Yeats Quotes

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: Irish
Born: June 13, 1865
Died: January 28, 1939

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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

How can we know the dancer from the dance?
William Butler Yeats

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
William Butler Yeats

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Child, Comfort, Desire, Destroyed, Drink, Keep, Known, Men, More, Seen, Than, Them, Wife

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Child, Comfort, Desire, Destroyed, Drink, Keep, Known, Men, More, Seen, Than, Them, Wife