“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
“Wine comes in at the mouth, and love comes in at the eye.”
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild.”
“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.”
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.”
“That is no country for old men.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”
“A terrible beauty is born.”
“What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
“Two birds on the lake share one shadow across the ripples.”
“Last spring the peony faded; my tears fell on the letter.”
“They only want me to sleep soundly on my mat and, waking late at night, idly speak with you about our love.”
“Now, for no reason, you've pulled up all the lotuses — and I can't wander these clear waves any more.”
“Leaping for joy in this pond all these years, I've often waved my red tail to tangle fishing lines.”
“To the quiet Cambridge, I give my quiet farewell.”
“Punting upstream to where green grass is greener, with dreams as cargo.”