Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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