William Butler Yeats Quotes

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

William Butler Yeats

• Love
• Fool
• Innocence
• Labourers

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• I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

  

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• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

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• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

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• The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

  

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• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

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• Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Love
  • Fool
  • Innocence