The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSRose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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