Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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