And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWords 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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