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 YEATSIt seems to me that true love is a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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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 worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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