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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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