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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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