Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Why should not old men be mad.William Butler Yeats
The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
William Butler Yeats
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
William Butler Yeats
Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
William Butler Yeats
Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon...
William Butler Yeats
'The sun in a golden cup' ... though not 'the moon in a silver bag,' is a quotation from the last of Mr. Ezra Pound's Cantos. W. B. YEATS.
William Butler Yeats
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