It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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.
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Myself I must remake.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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