All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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What can be explained is not 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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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