Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now.
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William Butler Yeats
In dreams begins responsibility.
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William Butler Yeats
Irish poets, learn your trade, / Sing whatever is well made.
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William Butler Yeats
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
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William Butler Yeats
Michelangelo left a proof / On the Sistine Chapel roof, / Where but half-awakened Adam / Can disturb globe-trotting Madam.
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William Butler Yeats
My country is Kiltartan Cross; / My countrymen Kiltartans's poor!
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William Butler Yeats
Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; / Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; / The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.
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William Butler Yeats
No art can conquer the people alone - the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
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William Butler Yeats
Nor dread nor hope attend / A dying animal; / A man awaits his end / Dreading and hoping all.
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William Butler Yeats
Nor law, nor duty bade my fight, / Nor public man, nor angry crowds.
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William Butler Yeats
Now that my ladder's gone / I must lie down where all ladders start / In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.
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William Butler Yeats
Now that my ladder's gone, / I must lie down where all the ladders start, / In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
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William Butler Yeats
O body swayed to music, / O brightening glance, / How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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William Butler Yeats
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance / How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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William Butler Yeats
Oh, who could have foretold / That the heart grows old?
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William Butler Yeats
Out of Ireland have we come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start.
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William Butler Yeats
Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! / Come mear me, while I sing the ancient ways.
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William Butler Yeats
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, / It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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William Butler Yeats
Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
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William Butler Yeats
Some people say there is a God; others say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere in between.