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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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