And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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