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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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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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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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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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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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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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