only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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