There is another world, but it is in this one.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhen two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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 tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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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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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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