Quotes
Authors
William Butler Yeats
"Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk" --
William Butler Yeats
#Wisdom Quotes
#Art Quotes
#Fate Quotes
“I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.”
“I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.”
“Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy. Sure. What is it? Hold Granuailes staff for just a minute. You know, rest it on the ground so that its like a walking stick or something and the top of it is near your right cheek. Granuaile and I traded weapons to humor him and I stood as instructed. Thats perfect! Now say this like Sir Ian McKellen I am Atticus the White, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”
“I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.”
“Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.”
“When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.”
“This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.”
“I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.”
