The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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