William Butler Yeats Quotes, Wine Quotes, Sleep Quotes

now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the man of ideas. He is acquainted with ideas, and moves among them like a lion-tamer. Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the man of no ideas. The man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller.

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Wine prepares the heart for love, unless you take too much.

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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape

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Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

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A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.

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I am falser than vows made in wine.

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[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Who prates of war or want after his wine? [Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a fiery, yellow liquid. Just behind my shoulder-blades some dry thing, wide-eyed, gently closes, gradually lulls itself to sleep. This is rapture. This is relief.

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I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

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Language is wine upon the lips.

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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

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