There is another world, but it is in this one.
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.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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