It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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