Irish - Poet | June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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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.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
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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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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
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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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Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.
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Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
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