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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Day Leaves Lying Myself Root Truth Youth
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Company Friendship Rest Yourself
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Friendship Perspective Stranger Yourself
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Contrary Greatness Mystery Past Power Pretend World
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Nature Rose Sweet Time World Yourself
I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Body Care Dreams Imagination Light Myself Observation Reason Silence Truth Vision
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Heart Rose Time
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Hands Heart Myself Quiet
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Bone Myself Nature Soft Space Stars
It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beautiful Kind Love Myself Seek World
Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Belief God One Liner
If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Connection Myself Relatable Tree Yourself
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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Battle Courage Darkness Fight Society Soldier Soul
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Ecstasy Happiness Imperfection Live
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Beautiful Myself Old Water
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Born Death Eyes Life Short Time Wink

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

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