One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHappiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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