People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSAnd a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
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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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If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.
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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
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God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.
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An intellectual hate is the worst.
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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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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.
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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.
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Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
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