Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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