I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSGod guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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