It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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