"Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?" — William Butler Yeats

"Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?"

— William Butler Yeats

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370 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats has 370 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he…
If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion…
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and…
The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise,…
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and… — Billie Joe Armstrong
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I… — Kevin Bacon
I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into… — Kevin Bacon
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. — Edward Abbey
It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.… — Saint Basil
Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul. — Ezra Taft Benson
No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when… — Annie Besant
Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which… — Emily Bronte
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to… — Nicolas Cage
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. — Julia Cameron

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