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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTeaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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