Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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I 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.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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