Where there is nothing, there is God.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSI 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.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
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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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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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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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