We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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