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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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