William Butler Yeats on death
William Butler Yeats89 quotes“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.”
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats In dreams begin responsibilitiy.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Where there is nothing, there is God.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love’s lonely hour in deep twilight of rest.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats An intellectual hate is the worst.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Myself I must remake.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Everything that’s lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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.
William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats 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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