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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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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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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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