Everything in nature is resurrection.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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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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