It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Myself I must remake.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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