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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThere is another world, but it is in this one.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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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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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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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