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Myself I must remake.

William Butler Yeats

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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Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
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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Break Course Hard Heart Love
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Face Myself Search World
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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Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Meaning Poetry Right Word
And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Feeling Ourselves Reason Taste Truth
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
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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Answer Awake Myself Night Old Question Right Sick
I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Believe Memories Myself Nature
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Education Fire Lightning
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
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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Action Change Creation Intellectual Love
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Business Head Heart World

Myself I must remake.

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