Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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.
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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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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