One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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