How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

Quote by William Butler Yeats

Topics: Heart Quotes, Relationships Quotes

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them...

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods...

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods...

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start....

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start....

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other...

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it...

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not...

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not...

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.