It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Myself I must remake.
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