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.
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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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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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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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All dreams of the soul End in a beautiful man’s or woman’s body.
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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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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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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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