It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThough leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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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One 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.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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