Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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