only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

William Butler Yeats

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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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Morning Myself Peace Sing Slow
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Death Life Preparation Spiritual
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Hands Heart Myself Quiet
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Nature One Liner World
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Brief Joy Knowledge Time Tragedy
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
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
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Dreams Round Yourself
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Art Fight Ourselves Poet Poetry
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
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Art Change Heart Work
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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King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Break Center Hold
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
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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Growth Happiness Philosophy Simplicity Spiritual Virtue
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Discipline Love Myself Perspective
Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Gift Hard Work Heart Privilege
What can be explained is not poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Explanation One Liner Poetry

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

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