Myself I must remake.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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