The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOnly that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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