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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSonly an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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