William Butler Yeats Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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Football is a passion that she holds dear to her heart. She's really going for her dream and there are obstacles in the way, but deep down she knows what she wants, and she pursues that.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
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I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
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What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
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If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on our country by a sinister international organization.
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The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.
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You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
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We live in the best place on earth but at times the worst.
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Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it. How you see it in your head is never how you see it on the screen, so it's almost like an out of body experience.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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I think those neighborhood signs that say 'slow children playing' are so very mean.
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No one should be judge in his own cause.
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I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
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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.
