Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Myself I must remake.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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