Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSHearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Myself I must remake.
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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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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.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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