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 YEATSFrom our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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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 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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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