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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

William Butler Yeats

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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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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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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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