The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThink where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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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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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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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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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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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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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 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.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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