We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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