There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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