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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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