Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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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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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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