Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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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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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 best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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