William Butler Yeats on art
William Butler Yeats89 quotes“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way.
Ray KrocRay Kroc There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.
Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov She creates art because its the closest she can get to her heart.
Gemma TroyGemma Troy Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run.
Steve PrefontaineSteve Prefontaine That’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
Trixie MattelTrixie Mattel Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Trixie MattelTrixie Mattel Use your art to fight.
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