Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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