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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBut I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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 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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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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