Everything in nature is resurrection.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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 heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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