The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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