And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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 seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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