Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Myself I must remake.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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