The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begin responsibilitiy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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