Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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 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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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