One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBeloved, 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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