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3 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Fate

William Butler Yeats quotes on fate

  1. The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

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  2. Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

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  3. 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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