It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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