Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Myself I must remake.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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