There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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