And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLove 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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 begin responsibilitiy.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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