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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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