It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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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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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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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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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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