The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe 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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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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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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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