I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSSometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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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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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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