Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSCome 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!
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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Myself I must remake.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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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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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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