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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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