Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Myself I must remake.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.
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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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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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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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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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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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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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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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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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