Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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