Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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Hammer your thoughts into unity.
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We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.
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In dreams begins responsibility.
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It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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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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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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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
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We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.
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