William Butler Yeats Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Sea Quotes

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

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He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

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Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible course. Their food is knowledge. They live on emptiness. They have seen how to break free. Who can follow them?

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Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

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Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

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Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is just what I wish, but deprive me of fish, And my life would indeed be blank.

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There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had before flowed out and since then this lake has always risen higher and higher. Perhaps the very act of renunciation provides us with the strength to bear it ; perhaps man will rise ever higher and higher when he no longer flows out into a God.

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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

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I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

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In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth.

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Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

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When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

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I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.)

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What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up.

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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

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