It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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