only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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