The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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