And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSJoy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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