Though leaves are many, the root is one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSYet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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