All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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 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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