It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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