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 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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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