And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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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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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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