By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhere there is nothing, there is God.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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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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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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What can be explained is not poetry.
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It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.
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Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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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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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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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
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