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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIf what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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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 visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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I broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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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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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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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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