Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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