Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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