The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Rose 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.
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