only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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 begin responsibilitiy.
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