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But is there any comfort to be found?
Man is in love and loves what vanishes,
What more is there to say?
The Tower (1928)
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
The Tower (1928)
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Crossways (1889)
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
Seek out reality, leave things that seem.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love.
The Pity Of Love in The Rose (1893)
If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?
Last Poems (1936)
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.
Responsibilities (1914)
Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.
Last Poems (1936)
Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?
The Tower (1928)
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old.
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Last Poems (1936)
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.
Responsibilities (1914)
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The Second Coming (1921)