William Butler Yeats Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Death Quotes

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

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There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

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Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

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And mighty poets in their misery dead.

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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

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But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

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When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

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Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.

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What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

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Authority forgets a dying king.

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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

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I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Death Quotes , Time Quotes

I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

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