only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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