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 YEATSOne man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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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.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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