The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

classic quote by William Butler Yeats
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Youth And Age

MUCH did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.

poem by William Butler Yeats
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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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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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Statistics

'THOSE Platonists are a curse,' he said,
'God's fire upon the wane,
A diagram hung there instead,
More women born than men.'

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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