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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSCome Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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 is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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