Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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