From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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