If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWe taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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