And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSGod guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begin responsibilitiy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOnly that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSDo not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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