only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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