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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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