What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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