God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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