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.
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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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