William Butler Yeats on dreams
William Butler Yeats89 quotes“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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 YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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 YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats
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