I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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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