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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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