Where there is nothing, there is God.
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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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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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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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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Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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