The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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