An intellectual hate is the worst.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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Myself I must remake.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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There is another world, but it is in this one.
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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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Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.
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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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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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