Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSBy logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
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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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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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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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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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And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.
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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven’t yet met.
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I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.
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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
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