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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

William Butler Yeats

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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Memories Myself Nature
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Cry Explanation Teaching
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Eyes Love Myself Romance See Wine Yourself
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Dreams Round Yourself
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Business Head Heart World
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
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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Conquer Endurance Energy Moral Noble Representation Right Spirit Strong Temptation Trial
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Meaning Poetry Right Word
Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Fire Light Teaching
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Alone God Guard Mindset Myself Protection Thinking
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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Angel Dance Flame Mountain Ride World Yourself
All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beautiful Body Dreams End Man Soul Woman
All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
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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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking

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