only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSLife is a long preparation for something that never happens.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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