William Butler Yeats
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is not credited even when he speaks... PERIANDER OF CORINTH A mentor stops contributing when he is seen as a statue of wisdom who just talks and never involve h... RITESH AMBASTHA ARTHUR RIMBAUD ALEKSANDAR HEMON MICHAEL MOORE WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS G. K. CHESTERTON When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe... UMBERTO ECO I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that... DIANE WAKOSKI W.B. YEATS CHARLES BAUDELAIRE TAHEREH MAFI JACK PALANCE When he sits down, his ears pop DON NELSON Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats i... ANNE STEVENSON ALBERT CAMUS He seems to have gotten his life back together. He has received help from other people but the bigge... KEVIN KEEGAN I was living in Portland and had no idea that he was having a problem. I didn't even know. I think t... LINDA COX ROBERT A. HEINLEIN SALMAN RUSHDIE JOSE MARTI He has tried to market himself as an expert in certain things and has been apparently soliciting eng... DENNIS HALL Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew... JAMES C. DOBSON CHARLES DARWIN SøREN KIERKEGAARD THOMAS PAINE ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING RALPH WALDO EMERSON I knew exactly when he came over by himself, something was wrong. He is the smartest kid I have ever... BRITTANY DAVIS In some ways, it fits even better with what his role is on the broadcast these days. Mike still has ... JEFF FAGER Joe has matured. He is playing for the team instead of himself and he has been terrific. JEFF HOLLAND JOHN KEATS He has the most arrogant personality. The way he'll look you up and down, it's unusual in a horse. Y... AIDAN O'BRIEN He has probably been our most consistently good player inside. I tease Rock about it. When he is goi... MIKE HOLMGREN After he gave up that homer in the sixth, I think he had a little talk with himself. He just put the... CLINT HURDLE ALDOUS HUXLEY BLAISE PASCAL I have often felt that when an Atheist asks "Where is your God?" it means even he has an innermost d... SANTOSH THANKACHAN HORACE GREELEY HORACE GREELEY LEONARD COHEN ALBERT CAMUS He was effectively erratic I guess. That was probably the most erratic we've seen him in a while. Bu... WILLIE RANDOLPH TOM BRADY WILLIAM S. GILBERT CONFUCIUS Whenever man decides that he is competent to do as he pleases he is soon enjoying Hell on earth, par... BERNARD IDDINGS BELL SHANNON L. ALDER UNKNOWN MELINA MARCHETTA PIET MONDRIAN It got to the point where he hurt [Nielsen] several times by accident, and he just backed off when h... GEORGE PETERSON The most important lesson I took from Miles was his certainty as an artist. He was criticized in a l... CHICK COREA ALYSHA SPEER I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, no... ANNE WRIGHT It was an accident that has endowed man with intelligence. He has made use of it: he invented stupid... RéMY DE GOURMONT MALCOLM GLADWELL My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the ... DAVID HENRY HWANG HANYA YANAGIHARA The idea has been suggested that he wasn't a fast hunter, that he was a carrion feeder. I would desc... SPENCER LUCAS He has worked extremely hard to get himself back into condition to play after being in a position wh... MIKE SULLIVAN If a poet or an artist puts himself into his Productions he is criticized. But that is exactly what ... SØREN KIERKEGAARD Gavin made it tough on himself in the first inning. He never really seemed to get into a rhythm, eve... GENE LAMONT In his usual perverse way, because he is so good at it, he thinks little of acting. Because he has a... BOB ELLIS If they have evidence that he did something wrong, indict him and give him a forum where he can defe... ANDREW PATEL JOHN CIARDI As a mother, it is hard when you see your child in so much pain. I want to hold him in my arms, but ... ELAINE THOMAS The most worrisome aspect of Greenspan's European remarks is that he is in denial, and as long as th... JUDE WANNISKI Everything that happened wasn't supposed to happen. The whole thing was not purposely done. It was a... JULIUS MURPHY The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one rea... ALMA GLUCK ALBERT EINSTEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN accepts we are at a defining moment, that the time when the republicans could ride the two horses is... DAVID TRIMBLE He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler... DOUGLAS RAPPAPORT SAMUEL BUTLER FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER JOHN STEINBECK ROBERT BADEN-POWELL SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL DAVID BENIOFF JOHN BURROUGHS E. M. CIORAN EMILE M. CIORAN
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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats... 
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats. 
Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twiligh... 
An Irish Airman foresees his Death
When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it dow... 
The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. 
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters s... 
The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches fo... 
I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to f... 
I was amazed at just what a great improviser in the true sense of the word he is, As frail as Dave i... 
It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once lo... 
Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does no... 
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo... 
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. 
That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she... 
One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put t... 
He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth ... 
Jubal paused, surprised at himself. He had intended to make the usual agnostic approach . . . and... 
He had been reborn into the knowledge of death; and the inescapability of change, of things-never-th... 
Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i... 
The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the ... 
...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even ... 
The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. 
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan,
To laugh, as he sits by the river,
Making a poet out ... 
If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache. 
A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continual... 
The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of... 
If the mercy of God is so great that He can instruct us, to our salvation, even when He hides Himsel... 
The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. 
He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to t... 
I knew a man who gave twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to ... 
He always seems to rise to the occasion, ... He plays his best in the most critical moments. Whether... 
He is an Englishman! / For he himself has said it, / And it's greatly to his credit, / That he is an... 
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face ... 
When God has a mission for you to complete he will give you the intelligence, talents and resources ... 
He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated,
even when most on his guard. 
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art ha... 
When a poet settled down to write a poem, could he foresee the lines he would write? Did his head co... 
The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he... 
This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's no... 
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... 
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minu... 
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a mi... 
To himself everyone is an immortal. He may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that ... 
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and... 
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. 
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou... 
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking ou... 
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the... 
More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ... 
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on... 
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on... 
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage i... 
Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square,
Has made three separate journeys to Paris,
And her fat... 
But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare,
When at the same moment she had on a dress
Whi...