And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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