Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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