Old Woman: If anyone would give me help he must give me himself, he must give me all.

classic line from Cathleen ni Houlihan, script by William Butler Yeats (1902)
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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

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

William Butler Yeats in Essays, Anima Hominis (1924)
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Have not all races had their first unity from a mythology that marries them to rock and hill?

William Butler Yeats in The Celtic Twilight
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

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