The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHammer your thoughts into unity.
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 worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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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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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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