It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAn intellectual hate is the worst.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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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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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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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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