only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEcstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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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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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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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