And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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