From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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