Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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