We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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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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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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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 exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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