Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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