only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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