I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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