And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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 YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
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William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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