We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSTalent perceives differences; genius, unity.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
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Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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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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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings.
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