Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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