And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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