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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThings fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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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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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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