Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSChoose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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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 seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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