All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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Myself I must remake.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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