If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSFrom our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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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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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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