One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIt seems to me that true love is a discipline.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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