William Butler Yeats Quotes, Blood Quotes, Wings Quotes

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

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Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

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What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

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We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

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This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

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God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

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The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above.

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There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

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You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound.

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Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

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The one test of the really weird (story) is simply this--whether or not there be excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the beating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim.

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Unless you catch ideas on the wing and nail them down, you will soon cease to have any.

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Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

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