We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything in nature is resurrection.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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