The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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