Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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