And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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