When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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