"Speech after long silence; it is right,..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
More by William Butler Yeats
“Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”
“Earth in beauty dressedAwaits returning spring.All true love must die,Alter at the bestInto some lesser thing.Prove that I lie.”
“What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.”
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“It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.”
“One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.”
“True art awakens theExtraordinaryOvation”