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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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