And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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