Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSIn dreams begins responsibility.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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