Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
William Butler Yeats on communication
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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.
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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.
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