The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Myself I must remake.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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