One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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