Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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