Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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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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Myself I must remake.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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