It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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 Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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