It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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