Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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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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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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