William Butler Yeats Quotes on Resilience
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Now all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbours' eyes? Bred to a harder thing Than Triumph, turn away And like a laughing string Whereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone, Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
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I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
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Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.