What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSonly an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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