And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Myself I must remake.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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