We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSGod guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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