And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSOne should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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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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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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Myself I must remake.
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