Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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