only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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