I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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