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.
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 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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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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