God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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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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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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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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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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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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