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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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