The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats An intellectual hate is the worst.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Myself I must remake.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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