It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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