And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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