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.
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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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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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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 winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Myself I must remake.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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