William Butler Yeats Quotes About Tragedy
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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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