It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Though 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.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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