It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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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 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 best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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