Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything in nature is resurrection.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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