The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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