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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSMysticism 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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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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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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