The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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