I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.
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He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrowbone.William Butler Yeats
I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.
William Butler Yeats
Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.
William Butler Yeats
The friends that have it I do wrong When ever I remake a song Should know what issue is at stake, It is myself that I remake.
William Butler Yeats
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost.
William Butler Yeats
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