God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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Myself I must remake.
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A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat. So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
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The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.
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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
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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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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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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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Though leaves are many, the root is one.
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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
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