One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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