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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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  Enemy, Emotion, Trouble

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Wise, Wisdom, Suffering

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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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  Fighting, Dark, Back Alleys

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• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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  Love, Life, Dream

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

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• We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

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  Taste, Reason, Feels

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

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  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• Where there is nothing, there is God.

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  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Stories of Red Hanrahan: With the Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Dream, Imagination, Vision

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• Everything in nature is resurrection.

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  Environmental, Resurrection

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• From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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  Happy Birthday, Eye, My Birthday

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.26

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• Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

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  Dream, Bags, Littles

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions

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• When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

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  Dream, Stars, Book

  "When You Are Old" l. 1 (1893)

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• The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

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  Life, Stars, Blood

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

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  Wine, Eye, Glasses

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• Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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  Religious, Atheism, Way

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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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  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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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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  Life, Believe, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”

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• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

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  Memories, Believe, I Believe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.344

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• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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  Joy, Tragedy, Abiding

  "Spencer Tracy: A Biography". Book by James Curtis, www.indiewire.com. 2011.

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• One man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
  And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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  Love, Men, Bending Down

  'When You Are Old'

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• One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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  Sleep, Knees, Beloved

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• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

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  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

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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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  Party, Character, Fighting

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• Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

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  Life Changing, Book, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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