"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual……" — William Butler Yeats
"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."
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William Butler Yeats
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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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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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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
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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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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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More Intercourse Quotes
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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
— Francis Bacon
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance,…
— David Bailey
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
— Angela Carter
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to…
— William Ellery Channing
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her…
— Louis Agassiz
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce…
— Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr
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We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or…
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us,…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.
— Cyndi Lauper
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I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling,…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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