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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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