It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMan is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Myself I must remake.
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Words 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.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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