The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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