All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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