I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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 dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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