And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
William Butler YeatsMysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
William Butler YeatsWhy should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler YeatsAll empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.
William Butler Yeats