What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSonly an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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