The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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