The 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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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 seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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