One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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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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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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