Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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 that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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