Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that true love is a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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