I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything in nature is resurrection.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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