The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Myself I must remake.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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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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