Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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