"I had this thought a while ago,"My..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
I had this thought a while ago,"My darling cannot understandWhat I have done, or what would doIn this blind bitter land."And I grew weary of the sun
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“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”
“I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.”
“Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by”
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“What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead.”
“If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation.”
“A mutual misunderstanding.”