Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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 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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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