There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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