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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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