William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Drink Man Sober Worst
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Change Face Love Man Soul Yourself
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Disappear Love Man
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Myself Suffering Wisdom
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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Meaning Poetry Right Word
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
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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Dreams Feet Myself Poor
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
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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Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Alive Awake Blood Blow Myself Nature Space Stars Wind
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
In dreams begins responsibility.
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Beginning Dreams Inspirational One Liner Possible
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself One Liner True
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Art Change Heart Work
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
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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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Death Imagination Live Logic Reason
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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Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself

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