An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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