25 result(s) for Yeats Quotes About Dying Young.
"I have always longed to be hidden in the grave."
"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."
"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet."
"I think if I were not Irish, I would be haunted by Ireland."
"In dreams begins responsibility."
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing."
"A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality."
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"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
"Out of life's own self-slaughter did I get this soul and each new mood I wring out of it is but a kiss, a soft, possessed, satiety of death."
"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."
"I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work."
"I am Irish, therefore I am pessimistic."
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
"That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations - at their song"
"The only cure for the ills of Ireland is more Ireland."
"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason about it."
"How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face"
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"When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep"
"A statue is not life, it is an energy which has been transformed into life. That is what art is."
"Man can embody truth but he cannot know it."
"I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young"
