Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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