If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSJoy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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 Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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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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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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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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