There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSSometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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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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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.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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