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.
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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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I believe that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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Myself I must remake.
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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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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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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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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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