The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Myself I must remake.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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