Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSNeither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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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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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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