We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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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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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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