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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One 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.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Myself I must remake.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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