The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Myself I must remake.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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 exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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