Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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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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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Myself I must remake.
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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 believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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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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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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