William Butler Yeats Quotes on Acceptance
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
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I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch, A blind man battering blind men; Or into that most fecund ditch of all, The folly that man does Or must suffer, if he woos A proud woman not kindred of his soul.
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I am content to follow to its source Every event in action or in thought; Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot! When such as I cast out remorse So great a sweetness flows into the breast We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blest.
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Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.