William Butler Yeats Quotes About Time
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
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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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