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.
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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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