Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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