Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAny 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Myself I must remake.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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 is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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