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.
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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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