Quotes by Yeats, William Butler

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. >>

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman >>

Quotations about Mystics and Mysticism

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go a >>

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, >>

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicul >>

Mysticism 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. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

Yeats, William Butler