All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Come 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!
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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