Maxioms by William Butler Yeats
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of
Burke; we are read more
We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of
Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the
people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature
of this country. We have created the best of its political
intelligence.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
