I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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