The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Myself I must remake.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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