Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBeloved, 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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I 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.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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