If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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