Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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