There is another world, but it is in this one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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