Though 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 YEATSBeloved, 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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.
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