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«We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.»
«You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.»
«I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Desire
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certainly, desire to know, destroyed, harlots
«The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.»
«I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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softly, spread, tread-softly, tread, tread on, very softly
«My fiftieth year had come and gone,I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,And open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.»
«The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Blown Away, blows, Gates, The Lonely, withered
«An intellectual hate is the worst»
«This melancholy London- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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compelled, perpetually, whiff, whiffing, whiffs
«One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Anger,
Self-control
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