And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Myself I must remake.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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