We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Myself I must remake.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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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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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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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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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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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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