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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begins responsibility.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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