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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

King Life Live Slave Sleep Soul Spiritual
Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Earth Existence Feet Ourselves True
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Best Intense Passionate Worst
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Death Life Preparation Spiritual
It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Emotion Enemy Greatness Ourselves Trouble
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gold Silver Sun Time
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Heart Rose Time
I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Memories Myself Nature
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Conquer Endurance Energy Moral Noble Representation Right Spirit Strong Temptation Trial
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Difference Genius Talent Unity
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time
Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Disappear Love Man
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Break Course Hard Heart Love

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