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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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