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!

William Butler Yeats

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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Appearance Bird Deep Wisdom
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Dreams Round Yourself
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Action Advice Hard Work Patience Wait
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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Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Destroy Fear Himself Man Understand
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Joy Labor Obstacle Success
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Beautiful Myself Old Water
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Difference Genius Talent Unity
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Appearance Beautiful Day Glow Season Wings
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Book exchange Life Logic Process Writing
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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Easy Home Invention Journalist Lying Man Stay Vote
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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Believe Conscience Deep Greatness Intellectual Life Myself Mystery Revolution Soul Spiritual Thinking Voice Writing
What can be explained is not poetry.
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Explanation One Liner Poetry
We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Close Key Uncertain
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Empty Opinion Soul
I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Face Myself Search World
There is another world, but it is in this one.
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Hide Perspective World
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Communication Language People Thinking Wisdom
Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Belief God One Liner
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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Dreams Reality Visible World
Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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Beginning Friendship Glory Man Myself Thinking
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Beautiful Enemy Innocence Time
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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Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Gold Silver Sun Time
I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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Break Course Hard Heart Love
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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Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
In dreams begins responsibility.
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Beginning Dreams Inspirational One Liner Possible

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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