All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Myself I must remake.
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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.
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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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