Though leaves are many, the root is one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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