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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Myself I must remake.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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