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.
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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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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