Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
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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Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is, A child’s laughter, a woman’s kiss.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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Myself I must remake.
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The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
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Everything in nature is resurrection.
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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
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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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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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