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 YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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