All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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.
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