We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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Myself I must remake.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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.
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