When two close kindred meet, What better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSWhat can be explained is not poetry.
More William Butler Yeats Quotes
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I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
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Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
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Where there is nothing, there is God.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
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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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Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.
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It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is.
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?
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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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The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance – the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.
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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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