Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEcstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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