Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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