We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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