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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Myself I must remake.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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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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