It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Myself I must remake.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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