The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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.
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