Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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