If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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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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