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.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSEverything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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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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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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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 broke my heart in two So hard I struck. What matter? for I know That out of rock, Out of a desolate source, Love leaps upon its course.
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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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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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