I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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 so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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