William Butler Yeats Quotes
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I had a major bug for cities and for paintings and literature and all the things I thought went on in cities.
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When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
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Journalism students need to understand it and need a solid background in the liberal arts, in sociology, economics, literature and language, because they won't get it later on.
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Music is very powerful and can make you feel whatever it is. If you listen to gospel, you're going to feel thankful, and you're going to want to call up people that you hate and tell them that you love them. When you listen to sexual music, it gets you in the mood.
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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I like to be comfortable, and don't like to be cold, and I don't like to wear anything I'm not in the mood for.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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An excellent precept for writers: Have a clear idea of all the phrases and expressions you need, and you will find them.
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Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.
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What made me empathic was my depressions.
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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
