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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

William Butler Yeats

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Live Low Man Satisfaction Stay Suffering
When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Better Call Connection Dance Togetherness
I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Memories Myself Nature
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Experience Literature Man Personal Ready Vision
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Children Kiss Laughter Life Woman
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Gold Silver Sun Time
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Sex Soul Tragedy Virgin
Everything in nature is resurrection.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Nature One Liner World
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Business Head Heart World
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Heart Rose Time
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Best Logic Mindset People Philosophy Starve
It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Believe Enough Feeling Oneself Time

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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