People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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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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