The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAll empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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 innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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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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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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