If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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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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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Myself I must remake.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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