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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we 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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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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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