Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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