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William Butler Yeats Quotes about Silence

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.233, Hayes Barton Press