There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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