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I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught. — W.B.Yeats

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. — W. H. Auden

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping ... I hear it in the deep heart's core. — W.B.Yeats

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry. — W. H. Auden

What can be explained is not poetry. — W.B.Yeats

I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay — William Butler Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. — W.B.Yeats

I believe acting truly is harnessing the power of belief. — Heath Ledger

There wasn't a single part of me that didn't want him to stay. But I loved him enough to want what was best for him. Even if I wasn't it. — Kathleen Peacock

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. — W.B.Yeats

I am my own friend, I am my own enemy. — Burbuqe Raufi

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — W.B.Yeats

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats

The dreams now were simply of staying alive. — John Marsden

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads. — Clarence Darrow

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe. — Kelly Holmes

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne — Orna Ross

History has been the history of warfare. — Godfrey Reggio

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world. — Frank Perdue

O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake. — William Butler Yeats

I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ... — William Butler Yeats

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats