Myself I must remake.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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