When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Myself I must remake.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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