One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBut I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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