I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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