Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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