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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTake, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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