All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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